Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... 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 Westminster - school under the care of Dr. Busby5 ; whence after 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 Westminster - school under the care of Dr. Busby5 ; whence after the ...
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... hand ; and , though maimed and injured by frequent transcribing , make their way into our most celebrated miscellanies , where they shine with uncommon lustre . Besides those verses in the Oxford books , which he could not help setting ...
... hand ; and , though maimed and injured by frequent transcribing , make their way into our most celebrated miscellanies , where they shine with uncommon lustre . Besides those verses in the Oxford books , which he could not help setting ...
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... hand , and the transcriber was often obliged to take the liberties of a friend . His condolence for the death of Mr. Philips is full of the noblest beauties 3 , and hath done justice to the ashes of that second Milton , whose writings ...
... hand , and the transcriber was often obliged to take the liberties of a friend . His condolence for the death of Mr. Philips is full of the noblest beauties 3 , and hath done justice to the ashes of that second Milton , whose writings ...
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... hands than where , I hear , it is at present lodged 3 ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the largest expectations , and is sufficient to make the town an agreeable invitation . 25 ' His greatest and noblest undertaking ...
... hands than where , I hear , it is at present lodged 3 ; and the bare mention of two such names may justify the largest expectations , and is sufficient to make the town an agreeable invitation . 25 ' His greatest and noblest undertaking ...
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... hands of men of worth and judgement , who loved him . It cannot be supposed they would suppress any thing that was his , but out of respect to his memory , and for want of proper hands to finish what so great a genius had begun ...
... hands of men of worth and judgement , who loved him . It cannot be supposed they would suppress any thing that was his , but out of respect to his memory , and for want of proper hands to finish what so great a genius had begun ...
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