Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... common among the young Rags of the present day . ' His fame lasted long . Forty- three years after his death Joseph Warton , in The Adventurer , No. 59 , described how ' minute rhymers neg- lect to change their linen because Smith was a ...
... common among the young Rags of the present day . ' His fame lasted long . Forty- three years after his death Joseph Warton , in The Adventurer , No. 59 , described how ' minute rhymers neg- lect to change their linen because Smith was a ...
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... common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the publick stock of harmless pleasure 2 . In the Library at Oxford is the following ...
... common friend : but what are the hopes of man ! I am disappointed by that stroke of death , which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the publick stock of harmless pleasure 2 . In the Library at Oxford is the following ...
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... Common Law Judges and five Civilians . Dr. King made an excellent judge as often as he was called to that Bench . ' King's Works , Preface , p . 14 ; Remains , p . 15. See also Blackstone's Comm . iii . 66 . 3 Post , SHEFFIELD , I n . 4 ...
... Common Law Judges and five Civilians . Dr. King made an excellent judge as often as he was called to that Bench . ' King's Works , Preface , p . 14 ; Remains , p . 15. See also Blackstone's Comm . iii . 66 . 3 Post , SHEFFIELD , I n . 4 ...
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... common . Post , SAVAGE , 335 . Works , i . 211 ; iii . 203. ' He made it upon the happiness of being buried alive with Mully , the red cow that gave him milk ; which the critics would have imposed upon the world for a political allegory ...
... common . Post , SAVAGE , 335 . Works , i . 211 ; iii . 203. ' He made it upon the happiness of being buried alive with Mully , the red cow that gave him milk ; which the critics would have imposed upon the world for a political allegory ...
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... common people be- lieved ; many persons of great quality imprisoned upon that sus- picion ; all men's minds prepared to hear of some sudden rising or See discovery . ' Relation , p . 162 . also Macaulay's Hist . vi . 252-63 . 2 Ante ...
... common people be- lieved ; many persons of great quality imprisoned upon that sus- picion ; all men's minds prepared to hear of some sudden rising or See discovery . ' Relation , p . 162 . also Macaulay's Hist . vi . 252-63 . 2 Ante ...
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