The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful ...
... gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly : Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke , Or printed his pitiful ...
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... gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but ...
... gave a piteous groan , and so it broke ; In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass . COWLEY . In forming descriptions , they looked out , not for images , but ...
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... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mis- tress , of which it is not ...
... gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class of his poems is called The Mis- tress , of which it is not ...
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... gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and lax- ity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , removed to Lincoln's Inn , he ...
... gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and lax- ity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he was , three years afterwards , removed to Lincoln's Inn , he ...
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... gave him no shame . He took both the usual degrees ; that of batche- lor in 1628 , and that of master in 1632 ; but he left the University with no kindness for its institution , alienated either by the injudicious severity of his ...
... gave him no shame . He took both the usual degrees ; that of batche- lor in 1628 , and that of master in 1632 ; but he left the University with no kindness for its institution , alienated either by the injudicious severity of his ...
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