Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... less pertinent and agreeable . His Phædra ' is a consummate tragedy , and the success of it 17 1 Post , SMITH , 43 . * Lucretius , i . 27 . Eng . Poets , xxv . 108 ; post , SMITH , 51 . Ante , MILTON , 156 . 5 Ante , JOHN PHILIPS , 3 ...
... less pertinent and agreeable . His Phædra ' is a consummate tragedy , and the success of it 17 1 Post , SMITH , 43 . * Lucretius , i . 27 . Eng . Poets , xxv . 108 ; post , SMITH , 51 . Ante , MILTON , 156 . 5 Ante , JOHN PHILIPS , 3 ...
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... less men than Shakespeare and Jonson ) , is clear from hence - because he left his works to the entire disposal of his friends , whose most rigorous censures he even courted and solicited ; submitting to their animadversions , and the ...
... less men than Shakespeare and Jonson ) , is clear from hence - because he left his works to the entire disposal of his friends , whose most rigorous censures he even courted and solicited ; submitting to their animadversions , and the ...
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... Alumni Oxon . 5 Dec. 24 , 1694 , Ds . [ Dominus ] Smith was admonished for habitual irregularities in order to his expulsion . ' Burton's Genuineness , & c . , p . 42 . less notorious . At Oxford , as we all know EDMUND SMITH II.
... Alumni Oxon . 5 Dec. 24 , 1694 , Ds . [ Dominus ] Smith was admonished for habitual irregularities in order to his expulsion . ' Burton's Genuineness , & c . , p . 42 . less notorious . At Oxford , as we all know EDMUND SMITH II.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. less notorious . At Oxford , as we all know , much will be for- given to literary merit ; and of that he had exhibited sufficient evidence by his excellent ode on the death of the great ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. less notorious . At Oxford , as we all know , much will be for- given to literary merit ; and of that he had exhibited sufficient evidence by his excellent ode on the death of the great ...
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... less power . Having formed his plan and collected materials he declared 56 that a few months would complete his design ; and , that he might pursue his work with less frequent avocations , he was , in June 1710 , invited by Mr. George ...
... less power . Having formed his plan and collected materials he declared 56 that a few months would complete his design ; and , that he might pursue his work with less frequent avocations , he was , in June 1710 , invited by Mr. George ...
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