The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , t near The difficulty of settling Prior's birth - place is great . In the register of his College he is called , at his admission by the ...
... supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , t near The difficulty of settling Prior's birth - place is great . In the register of his College he is called , at his admission by the ...
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... supposed that he was distin- guished among his contemporaries . He became a bachelor , as is usual , in four years ; and two years afterwards wrote the poem on the " Deity , " which stands first in his volume . It is the established ...
... supposed that he was distin- guished among his contemporaries . He became a bachelor , as is usual , in four years ; and two years afterwards wrote the poem on the " Deity , " which stands first in his volume . It is the established ...
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... supposed to have passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden ...
... supposed to have passed some of the next years in the quiet cultivation of literature and poetry . The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ; perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden ...
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... supposed that they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the Queen's ministers met Mesnager ( Sep- tember 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears ...
... supposed that they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the Queen's ministers met Mesnager ( Sep- tember 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears ...
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... supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular , that it was translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessa- rily tedious by the form of ...
... supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular , that it was translated into Latin by no common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessa- rily tedious by the form of ...
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