Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... poem on her birth - day , to which he gave the odd title of Volunteer Laureat . The event of this essay he has himself related in the following letter , which he prefixed to the poem , when he after- wards reprinted it in The ...
... poem on her birth - day , to which he gave the odd title of Volunteer Laureat . The event of this essay he has himself related in the following letter , which he prefixed to the poem , when he after- wards reprinted it in The ...
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... poem to him . For this purpose he made choice of a subject , which could regard only persons of the highest rank and greatest affluence , and which was therefore proper for a poem intended to procure the patronage of a prince ; and ...
... poem to him . For this purpose he made choice of a subject , which could regard only persons of the highest rank and greatest affluence , and which was therefore proper for a poem intended to procure the patronage of a prince ; and ...
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... poets . ' Young perhaps ascribed the good fortune of Addison to the Poem to his Majesty , presented , with a copy of verses , to Somers ; and hoped that he also might soar to wealth and honours on wings of the same kind . His first ...
... poets . ' Young perhaps ascribed the good fortune of Addison to the Poem to his Majesty , presented , with a copy of verses , to Somers ; and hoped that he also might soar to wealth and honours on wings of the same kind . His first ...
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