The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... night was in some degree clandestine , the design of treating not being yet openly declared , and , when the whigs returned to power , was aggravated to a charge of high trea- son ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect an- swer to ...
... night was in some degree clandestine , the design of treating not being yet openly declared , and , when the whigs returned to power , was aggravated to a charge of high trea- son ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect an- swer to ...
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... night . He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where birds are wafted with their feather'd oars . Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise From the warm earth , and cloud the smiling skies ; He sung how some , chill'd in their ...
... night . He spread the airy Ocean without shores , Where birds are wafted with their feather'd oars . Then sung the bard how the light vapours rise From the warm earth , and cloud the smiling skies ; He sung how some , chill'd in their ...
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... night , about the sky ; How some in winds blow with impetuous force , And carry ruin where they bend their course , While some conspire to form a gentle breeze , To fan the air and play among the trees ; How some , enraged , grow ...
... night , about the sky ; How some in winds blow with impetuous force , And carry ruin where they bend their course , While some conspire to form a gentle breeze , To fan the air and play among the trees ; How some , enraged , grow ...
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... night ; and Fenton , as a dramatic poet , took them to the stage - door ; where the door - keeper , inquiring who they were , was told that they were three very ne- cessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play which ...
... night ; and Fenton , as a dramatic poet , took them to the stage - door ; where the door - keeper , inquiring who they were , was told that they were three very ne- cessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play which ...
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... nights . The Author's third . night was by command of their Royal Highnesses . R. and Queen , and Gay was to be great and GAY . 71 .
... nights . The Author's third . night was by command of their Royal Highnesses . R. and Queen , and Gay was to be great and GAY . 71 .
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