Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... death , were the occasion of the son's being left very young in the hands of a near relation ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . ' This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , 4 and put him to ...
... death , were the occasion of the son's being left very young in the hands of a near relation ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . ' This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , 4 and put him to ...
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... death of Mr. Philips is full of the noblest beauties 3 , and hath done justice to the ashes of that second Milton , whose writings will last as long as the English language , generosity , and valour . For him Mr. Smith had contracted a ...
... death of Mr. Philips is full of the noblest beauties 3 , and hath done justice to the ashes of that second Milton , whose writings will last as long as the English language , generosity , and valour . For him Mr. Smith had contracted a ...
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... death he had engaged himself in several considerable undertakings ; in all which he had prepared the world to expect mighty things from him . I have seen about ten sheets of his English Pindar ' , which exceeded any thing of that kind I ...
... death he had engaged himself in several considerable undertakings ; in all which he had prepared the world to expect mighty things from him . I have seen about ten sheets of his English Pindar ' , which exceeded any thing of that kind I ...
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... death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock ' , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been yet but two years in the university . 31 This ode , which closed the second volume of the Muse ...
... death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock ' , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been yet but two years in the university . 31 This ode , which closed the second volume of the Muse ...
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... death : - ' He was , and is still , commonly known by the name of Captain Rag . ' Genuineness , & c . , p . 40 . Lord Castledurrow wrote to Swift in 1736 : - ' It grieves me to think that over Virgil and Horace Rag and Philips smoked ...
... death : - ' He was , and is still , commonly known by the name of Captain Rag . ' Genuineness , & c . , p . 40 . Lord Castledurrow wrote to Swift in 1736 : - ' It grieves me to think that over Virgil and Horace Rag and Philips smoked ...
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