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... acquaintance with life , and without knowledge of art or nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his Epilogues to Phadra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in ...
... acquaintance with life , and without knowledge of art or nature , a poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his Epilogues to Phadra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in ...
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... acquaintance . By a former writer of his life a story is told which ought not to be forgotten . He used , in the latter part of his time , to pay his relations in the country a yearly visit . At an enter- tainment made for the family by ...
... acquaintance . By a former writer of his life a story is told which ought not to be forgotten . He used , in the latter part of his time , to pay his relations in the country a yearly visit . At an enter- tainment made for the family by ...
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... acquainted with Gay , found such attrac- tions in his manners and conversation , that he seems to have received him into his inmost confidence ; and a friendship was formed between them which lasted to their separation by death ...
... acquainted with Gay , found such attrac- tions in his manners and conversation , that he seems to have received him into his inmost confidence ; and a friendship was formed between them which lasted to their separation by death ...
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... acquaintance . He died July 16 , 1736 , in the 66th year of his age . Of his poems , many are of that irregular kind which , when he formed his poetical character , was supposed to be Pindaric . Having fixed his attention on Cowley as a ...
... acquaintance . He died July 16 , 1736 , in the 66th year of his age . Of his poems , many are of that irregular kind which , when he formed his poetical character , was supposed to be Pindaric . Having fixed his attention on Cowley as a ...
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... acquaintance of Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Wilks , by whom he was pitied , caressed , and re- lieved . Sir Richard Steele , having declared in his favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character , promoted his ...
... acquaintance of Sir Richard Steele and Mr. Wilks , by whom he was pitied , caressed , and re- lieved . Sir Richard Steele , having declared in his favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character , promoted his ...
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