The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... died at Wimpole , a seat of the Earl of Ox- ford , on the eighteenth of September , 1721 , and was buried in Westminster ; where , on a monument for which , as the " last piece of human vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is ...
... died at Wimpole , a seat of the Earl of Ox- ford , on the eighteenth of September , 1721 , and was buried in Westminster ; where , on a monument for which , as the " last piece of human vanity , " he left five hundred pounds , is ...
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... died , soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despica- ble effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his prolific pen produced " Love for Love ...
... died , soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despica- ble effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his prolific pen produced " Love for Love ...
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... died , at his house in Surrey - street , in the Strand , January 29 , 1728-9 . Having lain in state in the Jerusalem Chamber , he was buried in West- minster Abbey , where a monument is erected to his memory by Henrietta , Duchess of ...
... died , at his house in Surrey - street , in the Strand , January 29 , 1728-9 . Having lain in state in the Jerusalem Chamber , he was buried in West- minster Abbey , where a monument is erected to his memory by Henrietta , Duchess of ...
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... died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits , whom he provoked more by his virtue than his dulness , has been exposed to worse treatment than he deserved . His name was so long used to point ...
... died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits , whom he provoked more by his virtue than his dulness , has been exposed to worse treatment than he deserved . His name was so long used to point ...
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... died , in 1730 , at Easthamstead in Berkshire , the seat of Lady Trumbull ; and Pope , who had been always his friend , honoured him with an epi- taph , of which he borrowed the two first lines from Crashaw . Fenton was tall and bulky ...
... died , in 1730 , at Easthamstead in Berkshire , the seat of Lady Trumbull ; and Pope , who had been always his friend , honoured him with an epi- taph , of which he borrowed the two first lines from Crashaw . Fenton was tall and bulky ...
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