Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the ...
... obtained praise , but not excited wonder . Many of his elegies appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the ...
Page 138
... obtained by the preservation of every verse unmingled with another , as a distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme . The variety of pauses , so much boasted by the lovers of ...
... obtained by the preservation of every verse unmingled with another , as a distinct system of sounds ; and this distinctness is obtained and preserved by the artifice of rhyme . The variety of pauses , so much boasted by the lovers of ...
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... obtained a rich wife in the city . ' He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - and- twenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in parliament and at court : and , if he ...
... obtained a rich wife in the city . ' He obtained a rich wife about the age of three - and- twenty ; an age before which few men are conspicuous much to their advantage . He was known , however , in parliament and at court : and , if he ...
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