Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. EDMUND SMITH DMUND SMITH is one of those lucky writers who have 1 Ethout much labour attained high reputation , and who are mentioned with reverence rather for the possession than the exertion ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. EDMUND SMITH DMUND SMITH is one of those lucky writers who have 1 Ethout much labour attained high reputation , and who are mentioned with reverence rather for the possession than the exertion ...
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... Smith's perfections , as well natural as acquired , seem to have been formed upon Horace's plan , who says in his Art of Poetry " Ego nec studium sine divite venā , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem ...
... Smith's perfections , as well natural as acquired , seem to have been formed upon Horace's plan , who says in his Art of Poetry " Ego nec studium sine divite venā , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium : alterius sic Altera poscit opem ...
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... Smith . He was too discerning to allow of the character of unprofitable , rugged , and abstruse , which some superficial sciolists ( so very smooth and polite as to admit of no impression ) , either out of an unthinking indolence or an ...
... Smith . He was too discerning to allow of the character of unprofitable , rugged , and abstruse , which some superficial sciolists ( so very smooth and polite as to admit of no impression ) , either out of an unthinking indolence or an ...
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... Smith's Pocockius ' is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen any thing like it ...
... Smith's Pocockius ' is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen any thing like it ...
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... Smith's honour ' . The truth is , and I speak it before living witnesses , whilst an agreeable company could fix him upon a subject of useful literature , nobody shone to greater advantage : he seemed to be that Memmius whom Lucretius ...
... Smith's honour ' . The truth is , and I speak it before living witnesses , whilst an agreeable company could fix him upon a subject of useful literature , nobody shone to greater advantage : he seemed to be that Memmius whom Lucretius ...
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