Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Addison's poem on the Peace of Ryswick was the best Latin poem since the Aeneid . Post , ADDISON , 18 . 4 Trapp quotes the following lines : - - ' Quin nunc requiris tecta virentia Nini ferocis , nunc Babel arduum , Immane opus ...
... Addison's poem on the Peace of Ryswick was the best Latin poem since the Aeneid . Post , ADDISON , 18 . 4 Trapp quotes the following lines : - - ' Quin nunc requiris tecta virentia Nini ferocis , nunc Babel arduum , Immane opus ...
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... Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night 3. Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success , and found that naked excellence was not sufficient for ...
... Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night 3. Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success , and found that naked excellence was not sufficient for ...
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... Addison's Works , v . 245 ; post , ADDISON , 95. Swift addressed to Molesworth the fifth Drapier Letter . In it he says : - ' I have buried at the bottom of a strong chest your Lordship's writings , under a heap of others that treat of ...
... Addison's Works , v . 245 ; post , ADDISON , 95. Swift addressed to Molesworth the fifth Drapier Letter . In it he says : - ' I have buried at the bottom of a strong chest your Lordship's writings , under a heap of others that treat of ...
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... Addison's Works , i . 148 . Montagu wrote : - ' The wounded arm would furnish all their rooms , And bleed for ever scarlet in the looms . ' Eng . Poets , xxvi . 303 . Pope parodied the Epistle in The Dunciad , ii . 155-6 , and in a note ...
... Addison's Works , i . 148 . Montagu wrote : - ' The wounded arm would furnish all their rooms , And bleed for ever scarlet in the looms . ' Eng . Poets , xxvi . 303 . Pope parodied the Epistle in The Dunciad , ii . 155-6 , and in a note ...
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... Addison began to praise him early ' , and was followed or accom- panied by other poets 2 ; perhaps by almost all , except Swift and Pope ; who forbore to flatter him in his life , and after his death spoke of him , Swift with slight ...
... Addison began to praise him early ' , and was followed or accom- panied by other poets 2 ; perhaps by almost all , except Swift and Pope ; who forbore to flatter him in his life , and after his death spoke of him , Swift with slight ...
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