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Carlo Dati presented him with an encomiastick inscription , in the tumid lapidary style ; and Francini wrote him an ode , of which the first stanza is only empty noise ; the rest are perhaps too diffuse on common topicks : but the last ...
Carlo Dati presented him with an encomiastick inscription , in the tumid lapidary style ; and Francini wrote him an ode , of which the first stanza is only empty noise ; the rest are perhaps too diffuse on common topicks : but the last ...
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In his eighteenth year he wrote the poem that appears first in his works , on ' the Prince's Escape at St. Andero ' ; a piece which justifies the observation made by one of his editors , that he attained , by a felicity like instinct ...
In his eighteenth year he wrote the poem that appears first in his works , on ' the Prince's Escape at St. Andero ' ; a piece which justifies the observation made by one of his editors , that he attained , by a felicity like instinct ...
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Dryden , when he wrote this poem , seems not yet fully to have formed his versification , or settled his system of propriety .. From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much ...
Dryden , when he wrote this poem , seems not yet fully to have formed his versification , or settled his system of propriety .. From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much ...
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Volume 1 Volumes 770-771 of Everyman's Library Lives of the English Poets: With an Introduction by Arthur Waugh, Samuel Johnson Volume 84 of Worlds classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Frowde, 191? |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2019 |
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