Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... moved for an impeach- ment against him . What made him so acrimonious does not appear : he was by nature no thirster for blood . Prior was a week after committed to close custody , with orders that no person should be admitted PRIOR.
... moved for an impeach- ment against him . What made him so acrimonious does not appear : he was by nature no thirster for blood . Prior was a week after committed to close custody , with orders that no person should be admitted PRIOR.
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... ment , justness of precept , splendour of illustration , and propriety of digression . I know not whether it be pleasing to consider that he produced this piece at twenty , and never afterwards excelled it : he that delights himself ...
... ment , justness of precept , splendour of illustration , and propriety of digression . I know not whether it be pleasing to consider that he produced this piece at twenty , and never afterwards excelled it : he that delights himself ...
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... ment . Some that tried them confessed their inability to understand them , though Warburton said that they were understood as well as the works of Milton and Shakespeare , which it is the fashion to admire . Garrick wrote a few lines in ...
... ment . Some that tried them confessed their inability to understand them , though Warburton said that they were understood as well as the works of Milton and Shakespeare , which it is the fashion to admire . Garrick wrote a few lines in ...
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