Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... never tired with aspiring . Hence it was that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and trifling that , like the junior compositions of ...
... never tired with aspiring . Hence it was that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and trifling that , like the junior compositions of ...
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... never troubled you before ; An Oxford man , extremely read in Greek , Who from Euripides makes Phaedra speak ; And comes to town to let us Moderns know How women loved two thousand years ago . ' 3Would one think it was possible ( at a ...
... never troubled you before ; An Oxford man , extremely read in Greek , Who from Euripides makes Phaedra speak ; And comes to town to let us Moderns know How women loved two thousand years ago . ' 3Would one think it was possible ( at a ...
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... never other- 53 wise heard . His Longinus3 he intended to accompany with some illustrations , and had selected his instances of the false Sublime from the works of Blackmore . He resolved to try again the fortune of the Stage , with the ...
... never other- 53 wise heard . His Longinus3 he intended to accompany with some illustrations , and had selected his instances of the false Sublime from the works of Blackmore . He resolved to try again the fortune of the Stage , with the ...
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... supported by others , and dis- pensed from all necessity of providing for himself . ' Post , SAVAGE , 336 . Ante , SMITH , 46 . Boswell's Johnson , i . 81 , 102 . 3 never received my notions with contempt . He was a 20 EDMUND SMITH.
... supported by others , and dis- pensed from all necessity of providing for himself . ' Post , SAVAGE , 336 . Ante , SMITH , 46 . Boswell's Johnson , i . 81 , 102 . 3 never received my notions with contempt . He was a 20 EDMUND SMITH.
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... never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles : he grew first regular , and then pious . His studies had been so various that I am not able to name a 75 man ...
... never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles : he grew first regular , and then pious . His studies had been so various that I am not able to name a 75 man ...
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