Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 86
... died on the twenty - third of April at Bath . Of the poems yet unmentioned the longest is Kensington Gardens , of which the versification is smooth and elegant , but the fiction unskilfully compounded of Grecian Deities and Gothick ...
... died on the twenty - third of April at Bath . Of the poems yet unmentioned the longest is Kensington Gardens , of which the versification is smooth and elegant , but the fiction unskilfully compounded of Grecian Deities and Gothick ...
Page 443
... died , the same papers were transferred with the same design to Sir Richard Steele , who in some of his exigences put them in pawn . They then remained with the old dutchess , who in her will assigned the task to Glover and Mallet ...
... died , the same papers were transferred with the same design to Sir Richard Steele , who in some of his exigences put them in pawn . They then remained with the old dutchess , who in her will assigned the task to Glover and Mallet ...
Page 471
... dying benediction to all around him . On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes , but these vanished in the ... died August 22 , 1773 , aged 64 . Lord Lyttelton's Poems are the works of a man of literature and judgement ...
... dying benediction to all around him . On Monday morning a lucid interval gave some small hopes , but these vanished in the ... died August 22 , 1773 , aged 64 . Lord Lyttelton's Poems are the works of a man of literature and judgement ...
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