Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... things one man of parts can say of another 3 , and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better to transcribe at once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as ...
... things one man of parts can say of another 3 , and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better to transcribe at once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as ...
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... thing in them mean and trifling that , like the junior compositions of Mr. Stepney , they may make grey authors blush . There are many of his first essays in oratory , in epigram , elegy , and epique still handed about the university in ...
... thing in them mean and trifling that , like the junior compositions of Mr. Stepney , they may make grey authors blush . There are many of his first essays in oratory , in epigram , elegy , and epique still handed about the university in ...
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... thing but what was substantial and lasting . He considered the ancients and moderns not as parties or rivals for fame , but as architects upon one and the same plan , the Art of Poetry , according to which he judged , approved , and ...
... thing but what was substantial and lasting . He considered the ancients and moderns not as parties or rivals for fame , but as architects upon one and the same plan , the Art of Poetry , according to which he judged , approved , and ...
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... thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some attempts this way with applause . He was an excellent judge of humanity ; and so good an historian that in familiar discourse he would talk over the most memorable facts in antiquity ...
... thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some attempts this way with applause . He was an excellent judge of humanity ; and so good an historian that in familiar discourse he would talk over the most memorable facts in antiquity ...
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... things from him . I have seen about ten sheets of his English Pindar 2 , which exceeded any thing of that kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out the plan of a tragedy of the Lady Fane Grey , and had gone ...
... things from him . I have seen about ten sheets of his English Pindar 2 , which exceeded any thing of that kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out the plan of a tragedy of the Lady Fane Grey , and had gone ...
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