Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... performances , that there arose no small contention between the representative electors of Trinity - college in Cambridge and Christ - church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the electors ...
... performances , that there arose no small contention between the representative electors of Trinity - college in Cambridge and Christ - church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the electors ...
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... performance . The praise is often indistinct , and the sentences are loaded with words of more pomp than use . There is little however that can be contradicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . EDMUND NEAL , known by the ...
... performance . The praise is often indistinct , and the sentences are loaded with words of more pomp than use . There is little however that can be contradicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . EDMUND NEAL , known by the ...
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... under Startle . See N. & Q . I S. xi . 368 . 6 7 Ante , SMITH , 15. Philips died on Feb. 15 , 1708-9 . Ante , PHILIPS , 8 . ' Mr. Smith , dining with the Prin- passages too ludicrous ' ; but every human performance has 16 EDMUND SMITH.
... under Startle . See N. & Q . I S. xi . 368 . 6 7 Ante , SMITH , 15. Philips died on Feb. 15 , 1708-9 . Ante , PHILIPS , 8 . ' Mr. Smith , dining with the Prin- passages too ludicrous ' ; but every human performance has 16 EDMUND SMITH.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. passages too ludicrous ' ; but every human performance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for 52 a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. passages too ludicrous ' ; but every human performance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for 52 a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it ...
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... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse * . 10 The same year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ' ; and the year afterwards received the last ...
... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse * . 10 The same year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ' ; and the year afterwards received the last ...
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