Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... Writing with ease what ( as Mr. Wycherley speaks ) may be easily written 2 moved his indignation . When he was writing upon a subject , he would seriously consider what Demosthenes , Homer , Virgil , or Horace , if alive , would say ...
... Writing with ease what ( as Mr. Wycherley speaks ) may be easily written 2 moved his indignation . When he was writing upon a subject , he would seriously consider what Demosthenes , Homer , Virgil , or Horace , if alive , would say ...
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... writing the dedication , till Lintot , after fruitless importunity , gave notice that he would publish the play without it . Now therefore it was written ; and Halifax expected the author with his book , and had prepared to reward him ...
... writing the dedication , till Lintot , after fruitless importunity , gave notice that he would publish the play without it . Now therefore it was written ; and Halifax expected the author with his book , and had prepared to reward him ...
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... written by him in 17112. The work is useful ; but might have been produced without the powers of King . The same year he published Rufinus , an historical essay3 , and a poem * , intended to dispose the nation to think as he thought of ...
... written by him in 17112. The work is useful ; but might have been produced without the powers of King . The same year he published Rufinus , an historical essay3 , and a poem * , intended to dispose the nation to think as he thought of ...
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... writing free of our nation , ' and being ' so little proportioned and equal to the renown of the [ that ] prince on whom they were written ; such great actions and lives deserving to be the subject [ subjects ] of the noblest pens and ...
... writing free of our nation , ' and being ' so little proportioned and equal to the renown of the [ that ] prince on whom they were written ; such great actions and lives deserving to be the subject [ subjects ] of the noblest pens and ...
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... writing The Rehearsal * . He was likewise chaplain to the king 5 . As he was the favourite of Wilkins , at whose house ... written upon a subject flux and transitory . The History of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wish to ...
... writing The Rehearsal * . He was likewise chaplain to the king 5 . As he was the favourite of Wilkins , at whose house ... written upon a subject flux and transitory . The History of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wish to ...
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