Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
... Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a ...
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... Sprat , to relate , ' That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is ...
... Sprat , to relate , ' That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ' This is an instance of the natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is ...
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... Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may be safely credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr ...
... Sprat as the most amiable of mankind ; and this posthumous praise may be safely credited , as it has never been contradicted by envy or by faction . Such are the remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of Dr ...
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