Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and ele- gance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and ele- gance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
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... Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may be safely credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr ...
... Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may be safely credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr ...
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Samuel Johnson. SPRAT THOMAS SPRAT was born in 1636 , at Tallaton in Devonshire , the son of a clergyman ; and having been educated , as he tells of himself , not at West- minster or Eaton , but at a little school by the churchyard side ...
Samuel Johnson. SPRAT THOMAS SPRAT was born in 1636 , at Tallaton in Devonshire , the son of a clergyman ; and having been educated , as he tells of himself , not at West- minster or Eaton , but at a little school by the churchyard side ...
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