The Lives of the English Poets |
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Page 4
... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise ...
... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise ...
Page 12
... delights of mean company . His Chloe probably was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his wenches , perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his ...
... delights of mean company . His Chloe probably was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his wenches , perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his ...
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... delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is ... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . I If Prior's poetry be ...
... delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is ... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher to reason . I If Prior's poetry be ...
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... delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or prey . his The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages , the general tenor and tendency of his plays must ...
... delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or prey . his The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages , the general tenor and tendency of his plays must ...
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... delight and wonder of the hearer . What we call genius results from this particular happy complexion in the first formation of the person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but diversified by various specific characters and limi ...
... delight and wonder of the hearer . What we call genius results from this particular happy complexion in the first formation of the person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but diversified by various specific characters and limi ...
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