Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... OF DR . BIRKBECK HILL , BY HIS NEPHEW HAROLD SPENCER SCOTT , M.A. , NEW College , OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES VOL . II SMITH - SAVAGE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS MDCCCC V Brad RR 2 . M 1-21-1928 16263 CONTENTS OF VOLUME LIVES OF THE.
... OF DR . BIRKBECK HILL , BY HIS NEPHEW HAROLD SPENCER SCOTT , M.A. , NEW College , OXFORD IN THREE VOLUMES VOL . II SMITH - SAVAGE OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS MDCCCC V Brad RR 2 . M 1-21-1928 16263 CONTENTS OF VOLUME LIVES OF THE.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. EDMUND SMITH DMUND SMITH is one of those lucky writers who have 1 Ewithout much labour attained high reputation , and whe are mentioned with reverence rather for the possession than the ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. EDMUND SMITH DMUND SMITH is one of those lucky writers who have 1 Ewithout much labour attained high reputation , and whe are mentioned with reverence rather for the possession than the ...
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... Smith's perfections , as well natural as acquired , seem to have been formed upon Horace's plan , who says in his Art of Poetry Ego nec studium sine divite venā , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem res ...
... Smith's perfections , as well natural as acquired , seem to have been formed upon Horace's plan , who says in his Art of Poetry Ego nec studium sine divite venā , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem res ...
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... Smith's Pocockius ' is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen any thing like it ...
... Smith's Pocockius ' is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen any thing like it ...
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