The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - English poetry |
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... seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge ...
... seem to have been ambitious ; and " Naufragium Joculare , " a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince passed through Cambridge ...
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... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain ...
... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned : I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now abstain ...
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... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man ...
... seems to have inserted something suppressed in subsequent editions , which was interpreted to denote some relaxation ... seem to have lessened his reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man ...
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... seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any particular pieces for praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and ...
... seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary to select any particular pieces for praise or censure . They have all the same beauties and ...
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... seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions , which discover no irreverence of ... seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English Ode cannot be called a ...
... seems to have been eminently virtuous , and the general tendency of his opinions , which discover no irreverence of ... seem thrown together by chance , are concatenated without any abruption . Though the English Ode cannot be called a ...
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