Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... PRIOR . · CONGREVE BLACKMORE FENTON · GAY GRANVILLE YALDEN • TICKELL • · HAMMOND SOMERVILE SAVAGE • Appendices FF to KK PAGE I 22 24 26 32 • 38 , 39 41 48 · 49 55 , 56 57 65 78 79 150-158 159 165 167 · 177-179 180 212 235 257 267 286 ...
... PRIOR . · CONGREVE BLACKMORE FENTON · GAY GRANVILLE YALDEN • TICKELL • · HAMMOND SOMERVILE SAVAGE • Appendices FF to KK PAGE I 22 24 26 32 • 38 , 39 41 48 · 49 55 , 56 57 65 78 79 150-158 159 165 167 · 177-179 180 212 235 257 267 286 ...
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... PRIOR II 180 • · DENHAM 70 ROSCOMMON I 229 DORSET . I 303 ROWE II • 65 DRYDEN I 331 SAVAGE II · · 321 DUKE II 24 SHEFFIELD II 167 DYER • III 343 SHENSTONE III 348 FENTON GARTH II 257 SMITH , EDMUND II I · II 57 SOMERVILE II 317 GAY ...
... PRIOR II 180 • · DENHAM 70 ROSCOMMON I 229 DORSET . I 303 ROWE II • 65 DRYDEN I 331 SAVAGE II · · 321 DUKE II 24 SHEFFIELD II 167 DYER • III 343 SHENSTONE III 348 FENTON GARTH II 257 SMITH , EDMUND II I · II 57 SOMERVILE II 317 GAY ...
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... Prior observes upon a very great character was true of him : ' that most of his faults brought their excuse with them ' . ' ' Those who blamed him most understood him least : it being the custom of the vulgar to charge an excess upon ...
... Prior observes upon a very great character was true of him : ' that most of his faults brought their excuse with them ' . ' ' Those who blamed him most understood him least : it being the custom of the vulgar to charge an excess upon ...
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... Prior the epilogue ( Eng . Poets , xxxiii . 92 ) , in which he is very happily facetious . ' Post , PRIOR , 60. It begins : - ' Ladies , to - night your pity I implore For one who never troubled you before ; An Oxford man , extremely ...
... Prior the epilogue ( Eng . Poets , xxxiii . 92 ) , in which he is very happily facetious . ' Post , PRIOR , 60. It begins : - ' Ladies , to - night your pity I implore For one who never troubled you before ; An Oxford man , extremely ...
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... ago ; he got his living suddenly , and he got his dying so too ... ' Feb. 16. Atterbury and Prior went to bury poor Dr. Duke . ' SWIFT , Works , ed . 1824 , ii . 180 , 182 . KING 1 WILLIAM KING was born in London in 1663 DUKE 25.
... ago ; he got his living suddenly , and he got his dying so too ... ' Feb. 16. Atterbury and Prior went to bury poor Dr. Duke . ' SWIFT , Works , ed . 1824 , ii . 180 , 182 . KING 1 WILLIAM KING was born in London in 1663 DUKE 25.
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