Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... perhaps be made entire , without great injustice to him , because few of them had his last hand , and the transcriber was often obliged to take the liberties of a friend . His condolence for the death of Mr. Philips is full of the ...
... perhaps be made entire , without great injustice to him , because few of them had his last hand , and the transcriber was often obliged to take the liberties of a friend . His condolence for the death of Mr. Philips is full of the ...
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... perhaps reason- able , complaints of her dispensations , under which he had honour enough to be easy , without touching the favours she flung in his way when offered to him at the price of a more durable reputation . He took care to ...
... perhaps reason- able , complaints of her dispensations , under which he had honour enough to be easy , without touching the favours she flung in his way when offered to him at the price of a more durable reputation . He took care to ...
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... perhaps some objections may be made to its Latinity , is by far the best Lyrick composition in that collection ; nor do I know where to find it equalled among the modern writers3 . It expresses with great felicity images not classical ...
... perhaps some objections may be made to its Latinity , is by far the best Lyrick composition in that collection ; nor do I know where to find it equalled among the modern writers3 . It expresses with great felicity images not classical ...
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... perhaps be doubted . He was however caressed by men of great abilities , whatever were their party , and was supported by the liberality of those who delighted in his conversation . 43 There was once a design hinted at by Oldisworth to ...
... perhaps be doubted . He was however caressed by men of great abilities , whatever were their party , and was supported by the liberality of those who delighted in his conversation . 43 There was once a design hinted at by Oldisworth to ...
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... Perhaps , like some other foolish young men , he rather talked than lived viciously , in an age when he that would be thought a wit was afraid to say his prayers ; and whatever might have Duke is not included in Camp- bell's British ...
... Perhaps , like some other foolish young men , he rather talked than lived viciously , in an age when he that would be thought a wit was afraid to say his prayers ; and whatever might have Duke is not included in Camp- bell's British ...
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