The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... common account of the meanness of his birth . -Dr . J. + Samuel Prior kept the Rummer Tavern , near Charing Cross , in 1685. The annual feast of the nobility and gentry living in the parish of St. B. VOL . II . Charing Cross , who sent ...
... common account of the meanness of his birth . -Dr . J. + Samuel Prior kept the Rummer Tavern , near Charing Cross , in 1685. The annual feast of the nobility and gentry living in the parish of St. B. VOL . II . Charing Cross , who sent ...
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... common soldier and his wife , in Long Acre , before he went to bed ; not from any remains of the lowness of his original , as one said , but , I suppose , that his faculties , -Strain'd to the height , In that celestial colloquy sublime ...
... common soldier and his wife , in Long Acre , before he went to bed ; not from any remains of the lowness of his original , as one said , but , I suppose , that his faculties , -Strain'd to the height , In that celestial colloquy sublime ...
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... common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessa- rily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , incon- sequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and ...
... common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessa- rily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty - five times repeated , incon- sequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and ...
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... common thoughts ; and his smaller , which con- sist of light images or single conceits , are not al ways his own . I have traced him among the French epigrammatists , and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure authors ...
... common thoughts ; and his smaller , which con- sist of light images or single conceits , are not al ways his own . I have traced him among the French epigrammatists , and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure authors ...
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... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it appa- rently pre - supposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can ...
... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it appa- rently pre - supposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can ...
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