The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... poem on the " Deity , " which stands first in his volume . It is the established practice of that College , to send every year to the Earl of Exeter some poems upon sacred subjects , in acknowledgment of a be- nefaction enjoyed by them ...
... poem on the " Deity , " which stands first in his volume . It is the established practice of that College , to send every year to the Earl of Exeter some poems upon sacred subjects , in acknowledgment of a be- nefaction enjoyed by them ...
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... 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 the understanding ...
... 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 the understanding ...
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... poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his Epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the Queen , the pedant has found his way , with ...
... poem of any length , cold and lifeless like this , may be easily written on any subject . In his Epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the Queen , the pedant has found his way , with ...
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... poem proceeds not from the uniformity of the subject , for it is sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon relates the succes sive vicissitudes of his own mind , without the in ...
... poem proceeds not from the uniformity of the subject , for it is sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon relates the succes sive vicissitudes of his own mind , without the in ...
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... or , if he may tell his own mo- tives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first pub . At Sadlers ' Hall . lic work was an heroic poem . He was not 40 BLACKMORE .
... or , if he may tell his own mo- tives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first pub . At Sadlers ' Hall . lic work was an heroic poem . He was not 40 BLACKMORE .
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