Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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... sometimes elegant , sometimes trifling , and sometimes dull ; among the best are the Camelion , and the epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much , and translated so little : the version of Callimachus ...
... sometimes elegant , sometimes trifling , and sometimes dull ; among the best are the Camelion , and the epitaph on John and Joan . Scarcely any one of our poets has written so much , and translated so little : the version of Callimachus ...
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... Sometimes he copies the most popular writers , for he seems scarcely to endeavour at con- cealment ; and sometimes he picks up fragments in obscure corners . His lines to Fenton , Serene , the sting of pain thy thoughts beguile , And ...
... Sometimes he copies the most popular writers , for he seems scarcely to endeavour at con- cealment ; and sometimes he picks up fragments in obscure corners . His lines to Fenton , Serene , the sting of pain thy thoughts beguile , And ...
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... sometimes with gloomy indignation , as on monsters more worthy of hatred than of pity . These were dispositions ap ... sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the Great is repeated ...
... sometimes with gloomy indignation , as on monsters more worthy of hatred than of pity . These were dispositions ap ... sometimes vexed , and sometimes pleased , with the natural emotions of common men . His scorn of the Great is repeated ...
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