The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci dent , though the book to which he prefixed his nar- rative contained its confutation . A memory admit- ting some things , and rejecting ...
... tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious inci dent , though the book to which he prefixed his nar- rative contained its confutation . A memory admit- ting some things , and rejecting ...
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... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some . measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is na- tural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an ...
... tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some . measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is na- tural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an ...
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... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as ...
... tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . " This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as ...
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... tell , can- not however now be known ; I must therefore re- commend the perusal of his work , to which my nar- ration can be considered only as a slender supple- ment . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
... tell , can- not however now be known ; I must therefore re- commend the perusal of his work , to which my nar- ration can be considered only as a slender supple- ment . Cowley , like other poets who have written with narrow views , and ...
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... telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into ...
... telling the history of Lucifer , who was , he says , Once general of a gilded host of sprites , Like Hesper leading forth the spangled nights ; But down like lightning , which him struck , he came , And roar'd at his first plunge into ...
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