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SAVAGE 84 SWIFT 85 BROOME 91 POPE ib . PITT 134 THOMSON WATTS 142 143 144 146 148 149 SHENSTONE 151 YOUNG 155 MALLET 175 AKENSIDE 177 | GRAY 179 LYTTELTON • · · A. PHILIPS WEST COLLINS DYER • • • • A powerful brand prescribed the date ...
SAVAGE 84 SWIFT 85 BROOME 91 POPE ib . PITT 134 THOMSON WATTS 142 143 144 146 148 149 SHENSTONE 151 YOUNG 155 MALLET 175 AKENSIDE 177 | GRAY 179 LYTTELTON • · · A. PHILIPS WEST COLLINS DYER • • • • A powerful brand prescribed the date ...
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See Granger's History , vol . ii . p . 396 , edit . 8vo . 1775. Mr. Cole says , the Poet's father was a grocer . Cole's MSS . in Brit . Mus.-C. was to sit hour after hour , while his hair 84 STEPNEY . ib SAVAGE SWIFT.
See Granger's History , vol . ii . p . 396 , edit . 8vo . 1775. Mr. Cole says , the Poet's father was a grocer . Cole's MSS . in Brit . Mus.-C. was to sit hour after hour , while his hair 84 STEPNEY . ib SAVAGE SWIFT.
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... grand and the new produced many sentiments either great or bulky , and many images either just or splendid : } I am as free as Nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran .
... grand and the new produced many sentiments either great or bulky , and many images either just or splendid : } I am as free as Nature first made man , Ere the base laws of servitude began , When wild in woods the noble savage ran .
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In " Tamerlane " there is some ridiculous mention of the God of Love ; and Rodogune , a savage Saxon , talks of Venus , and the eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter . + The play discovers its own date , by a prediction of the Union ...
In " Tamerlane " there is some ridiculous mention of the God of Love ; and Rodogune , a savage Saxon , talks of Venus , and the eagle that bears the thunder of Jupiter . + The play discovers its own date , by a prediction of the Union ...
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The practice of barring - out was a savage licence , practised in many schools at the end of the last century , by which the boys , when the periodical vacation drew near , growing petulent at the approach of liberty , some days before ...
The practice of barring - out was a savage licence , practised in many schools at the end of the last century , by which the boys , when the periodical vacation drew near , growing petulent at the approach of liberty , some days before ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Jones & Company, 1825 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 363 pages |
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