The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude rewarded by seeing her son eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know , at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her ...
... lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude rewarded by seeing her son eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know , at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her ...
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... lived and acted with manners un- communicable ; so that it is difficult even for ima- gination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the ...
... lived and acted with manners un- communicable ; so that it is difficult even for ima- gination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the ...
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... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much . should have ...
... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this universality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much . should have ...
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... lived at Horton , he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , family , wrote this mask . Lawes set it to music , and it was acted on Michaelmas night ; the two brothers , the young lady , and Lawes himself , bear- ing each ...
... lived at Horton , he used sometimes to steal from his studies a few days , family , wrote this mask . Lawes set it to music , and it was acted on Michaelmas night ; the two brothers , the young lady , and Lawes himself , bear- ing each ...
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... lived longer in this place than any other . He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . " Whence he drew the original design has been variously con- jectured by men who cannot bear to think them- selves ignorant of that which , at last ...
... lived longer in this place than any other . He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . " Whence he drew the original design has been variously con- jectured by men who cannot bear to think them- selves ignorant of that which , at last ...
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