The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... expected succeeding ages to regard with veneration . His affection was natural ; it had undoubtedly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge ...
... expected succeeding ages to regard with veneration . His affection was natural ; it had undoubtedly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge ...
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... expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his cen- sures , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poet's company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is ...
... expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his cen- sures , which he expresses in language such as Cheapside easily furnished . " I am not free of the poet's company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is ...
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... expected from the common tenor of his prose : " As the several combinations of splenetic mad- ness and folly produce an infinite variety of irre- gular understanding , so the amicable accommoda- tion and alliance between several virtues ...
... expected from the common tenor of his prose : " As the several combinations of splenetic mad- ness and folly produce an infinite variety of irre- gular understanding , so the amicable accommoda- tion and alliance between several virtues ...
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... expected that I should be able to give a critical account . I have been told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sub- limity , and to represent it as ...
... expected that I should be able to give a critical account . I have been told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sub- limity , and to represent it as ...
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... expected to produce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , * To Trinity College . By the University regis- ter it appears that he was admitted to his master's degree in ...
... expected to produce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated in six lines , * To Trinity College . By the University regis- ter it appears that he was admitted to his master's degree in ...
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