Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 31
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot , nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my ...
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot , nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my ...
Page 162
... kind of contempt never depressed him ; for he always preserved a steady confidence in his own capacity , and believed nothing above his reach which he should at any time earnestly endeavour to attain . He formed schemes of the same kind ...
... kind of contempt never depressed him ; for he always preserved a steady confidence in his own capacity , and believed nothing above his reach which he should at any time earnestly endeavour to attain . He formed schemes of the same kind ...
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... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
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