Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... lines : " So many languages he had in store , That only Fame shall speak of him in more " . ' The simile by which an old man retaining the fire of his youth is compared to Ętna flaming through the snow , which Smith has 1 Ante , SMITH ...
... lines : " So many languages he had in store , That only Fame shall speak of him in more " . ' The simile by which an old man retaining the fire of his youth is compared to Ętna flaming through the snow , which Smith has 1 Ante , SMITH ...
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... lines : - " Now wider still my growing horrors spread , My fame , my virtue , nay my frenzy's fled . Then view thy wretched blood , imperial Jove . If crimes enrage you , or misfor- tunes move , On me your flames , on me your bolts ...
... lines : - " Now wider still my growing horrors spread , My fame , my virtue , nay my frenzy's fled . Then view thy wretched blood , imperial Jove . If crimes enrage you , or misfor- tunes move , On me your flames , on me your bolts ...
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... lines . His poems are not below mediocrity ; nor have I found much in them to be praised . With the wit he seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times ; for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with ...
... lines . His poems are not below mediocrity ; nor have I found much in them to be praised . With the wit he seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times ; for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with ...
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... lines as the following : - ' In Charles , so good a man and King , we see A double Image of the Deity . Oh ! had he more resembled it ! Oh ! why Was He not still more like , and could not die ? ' Works , p . 8 ; Life , p . 6 ; Eng ...
... lines as the following : - ' In Charles , so good a man and King , we see A double Image of the Deity . Oh ! had he more resembled it ! Oh ! why Was He not still more like , and could not die ? ' Works , p . 8 ; Life , p . 6 ; Eng ...
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... . By Bufo Pope had at first meant Bubb Dodington ; ' he added four lines which pointed directly to Hali- fax . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Court- hope ) , iii . 259. See post , POPE , 102 . He was , as Pope says , ' fed with 46 HALIFAX.
... . By Bufo Pope had at first meant Bubb Dodington ; ' he added four lines which pointed directly to Hali- fax . ' Pope's Works ( Elwin and Court- hope ) , iii . 259. See post , POPE , 102 . He was , as Pope says , ' fed with 46 HALIFAX.
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