Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... shew a masterly hand ; and , though maimed and injured by frequent transcribing , make their way into our most celebrated miscellanies , where they shine with uncommon lustre . Besides those verses in the Oxford books , which he could ...
... shew a masterly hand ; and , though maimed and injured by frequent transcribing , make their way into our most celebrated miscellanies , where they shine with uncommon lustre . Besides those verses in the Oxford books , which he could ...
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... shews a strong desire to make the most of all favourable truth . I cannot much commend 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 ...
... shews a strong desire to make the most of all favourable truth . I cannot much commend 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 ...
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... shew , an elegant mixture of fond- ness and admiration , of dignity and softness ' . There are some ' For Thomson's loss of a place by the same neglect see post , THOMSON , 27 . Ante , SMITH , 47 n . Johnson , in The Idler , No. 60 ...
... shew , an elegant mixture of fond- ness and admiration , of dignity and softness ' . There are some ' For Thomson's loss of a place by the same neglect see post , THOMSON , 27 . Ante , SMITH , 47 n . Johnson , in The Idler , No. 60 ...
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... shew how worthy he was of high preferment . As he thought himself qualified to become a popular preacher he displayed his elocution with great success in the pulpits of London ; but the queen's death putting an end to his expectations ...
... shew how worthy he was of high preferment . As he thought himself qualified to become a popular preacher he displayed his elocution with great success in the pulpits of London ; but the queen's death putting an end to his expectations ...
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... shews no evident signs of repentance , but may be reasonably suspected of feeling pain from detection rather than ... shew them as they have already been shewn is to disgust by repetition ; to give them new qualities or new adventures ...
... shews no evident signs of repentance , but may be reasonably suspected of feeling pain from detection rather than ... shew them as they have already been shewn is to disgust by repetition ; to give them new qualities or new adventures ...
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