Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Frowde |
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... shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published , soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastick character of his deceased patron the duke of Dorset : it began with the ...
... shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published , soon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiastick character of his deceased patron the duke of Dorset : it began with the ...
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... shew , that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness , rural life must be exhibited such as grossness and ignorance have made it . So far the plan was reasonable ; but the Pastorals are introduced by a Proeme , written with ...
... shew , that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness , rural life must be exhibited such as grossness and ignorance have made it . So far the plan was reasonable ; but the Pastorals are introduced by a Proeme , written with ...
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... shew to our friends . There is , indeed , no transaction which offers stronger temptations to fallacy and sophistication than episto- lary intercourse . In the eagerness of conversation the first emotions of the mind often burst out ...
... shew to our friends . There is , indeed , no transaction which offers stronger temptations to fallacy and sophistication than episto- lary intercourse . In the eagerness of conversation the first emotions of the mind often burst out ...
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