Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... success of it 17 1 Post , SMITH , 43 . * Lucretius , i . 27 . Eng . Poets , xxv . 108 ; post , SMITH , 51 . Ante , MILTON , 156 . 5 Ante , JOHN PHILIPS , 3 . Phaedra and Hippolitus , Eng . Poets , xxv . 3 . 18 was as great as the most ...
... success of it 17 1 Post , SMITH , 43 . * Lucretius , i . 27 . Eng . Poets , xxv . 108 ; post , SMITH , 51 . Ante , MILTON , 156 . 5 Ante , JOHN PHILIPS , 3 . Phaedra and Hippolitus , Eng . Poets , xxv . 3 . 18 was as great as the most ...
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... success of which consisted the greatest , if not the only , happiness of his life . He knew very well what was due to his birth , though Fortune threw him short of it in every other circum- stance of life . He avoided making any ...
... success of which consisted the greatest , if not the only , happiness of his life . He knew very well what was due to his birth , though Fortune threw him short of it in every other circum- stance of life . He avoided making any ...
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... success , and found that naked excellence was not sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who advanced the 48 price from fifty guineas , the current rate , to sixty 5 ; and Halifax , the general ...
... success , and found that naked excellence was not sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who advanced the 48 price from fifty guineas , the current rate , to sixty 5 ; and Halifax , the general ...
Page 51
... success in the pulpits of London ; but the queen's death putting an end to his expectations abated his diligence : and Pope represents him as falling from that time into intemperance of wine 3 . That in his latter life he was too much a ...
... success in the pulpits of London ; but the queen's death putting an end to his expectations abated his diligence : and Pope represents him as falling from that time into intemperance of wine 3 . That in his latter life he was too much a ...
Page 68
... successful . 12 Rowe does not always remember what his characters require . In Tamerlane there is some ridiculous mention of the God of Love ; and Rhodogune , a savage Saxon , talks of Venus , and the eagle that bears the thunder of ...
... successful . 12 Rowe does not always remember what his characters require . In Tamerlane there is some ridiculous mention of the God of Love ; and Rhodogune , a savage Saxon , talks of Venus , and the eagle that bears the thunder of ...
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