Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae Anglicanae ...
... write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin a poem on the Sheldonian Theatre , in which all kinds of verse are shaken together , is unhappily inserted in the Musae Anglicanae ...
Page 265
... write the dedication felt no pain in writing the preface . Aureng Zebe is a tragedy founded on the actions of a great prince then reigning , but over nations not likely to employ their criticks upon the transactions of the English stage ...
... write the dedication felt no pain in writing the preface . Aureng Zebe is a tragedy founded on the actions of a great prince then reigning , but over nations not likely to employ their criticks upon the transactions of the English stage ...
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... writer , that , when he had taken his resolution , or made his plan for what he designed to write , he would walk about a room , and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down , and attend to ...
... writer , that , when he had taken his resolution , or made his plan for what he designed to write , he would walk about a room , and dictate it into language with as much freedom and ease as any one could write it down , and attend to ...
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