The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... success , seem to have recommended him to some notice ; for his praise of the Countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford rea- son for imagining that he was more or less con- versant with that family . The ...
... success , seem to have recommended him to some notice ; for his praise of the Countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford rea- son for imagining that he was more or less con- versant with that family . The ...
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... success ; his interrupted lines are unpleasing , and his sense as less distinct is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little ...
... success ; his interrupted lines are unpleasing , and his sense as less distinct is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser , as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little ...
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... success of its exhibition , and , by their greater experience , fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , probably of this , that , when Congreve read it to the players , he pronounced it so wretchedly , that ...
... success of its exhibition , and , by their greater experience , fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , probably of this , that , when Congreve read it to the players , he pronounced it so wretchedly , that ...
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... success , and impatient of censure , assumed an air of confidence and security . His chief artifice of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words ; he is very angry , and , hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons ...
... success , and impatient of censure , assumed an air of confidence and security . His chief artifice of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words ; he is very angry , and , hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons ...
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... success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than the work which he condemns . To this cen- sure may be opposed the approbation of Locke and the admiration of Molineux ...
... success naturally raised animosity ; and Dennis attacked it by a formal criticism , more tedious and disgusting than the work which he condemns . To this cen- sure may be opposed the approbation of Locke and the admiration of Molineux ...
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