The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitę filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir Eximius , Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginęque MARIE ...
... pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitę filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H. S. E. Vir Eximius , Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO Reginęque MARIE ...
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... pounds a year . Con- greve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dra- matic poetry professes ...
... pounds a year . Con- greve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dra- matic poetry professes ...
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... pounds a year . His honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his Miscellany , and Pope in- 32 CONGREVE .
... pounds a year . His honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his Miscellany , and Pope in- 32 CONGREVE .
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... pounds , the accumulation of attentive parsi- mony ; which , though to her superfluous and use- less , might have given great assistance to the an- cient family from which he descended , at that time , by the imprudence of his relation ...
... pounds , the accumulation of attentive parsi- mony ; which , though to her superfluous and use- less , might have given great assistance to the an- cient family from which he descended , at that time , by the imprudence of his relation ...
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... pounds , with which he discharged a debt contracted by his at- tendance at court . Fenton seems to have had some peculiar system of versification . " Mariamne " is written in lines of ten syllables , with few of those redundant ter ...
... pounds , with which he discharged a debt contracted by his at- tendance at court . Fenton seems to have had some peculiar system of versification . " Mariamne " is written in lines of ten syllables , with few of those redundant ter ...
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