LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful ...
... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful ...
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... gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love too strong for ' t was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out not for images , but , for ...
... gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke : The love too strong for ' t was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out not for images , but , for ...
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... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary ...
... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mistress , of which it is not necessary ...
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... gave no prognosticks of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under slug- gishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , removed to Lincoln's Inn , he ...
... gave no prognosticks of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under slug- gishness and laxity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , removed to Lincoln's Inn , he ...
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... gave their answer . Of this Answer a Confutation was attempted by the learned Uher ; and to the Confutation Milton published a Reply , intituled , Of Prelatical Episcopacy , and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical Times , by ...
... gave their answer . Of this Answer a Confutation was attempted by the learned Uher ; and to the Confutation Milton published a Reply , intituled , Of Prelatical Episcopacy , and whether it may be deduced from the Apostolical Times , by ...
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