Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... late earl of Shaftesbury , he kept the poet in awe by regular criticism ' , and , as it were , married the two arts for their mutual support and improvement . There was not a tract of credit upon that subject which he had not diligently ...
... late earl of Shaftesbury , he kept the poet in awe by regular criticism ' , and , as it were , married the two arts for their mutual support and improvement . There was not a tract of credit upon that subject which he had not diligently ...
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... ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) , after the manner of Horace's Lusory or Amatorian Odes , is certainly a masterpiece ; bi Mr. Smith's Pocockius ' is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the ...
... ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) , after the manner of Horace's Lusory or Amatorian Odes , is certainly a masterpiece ; bi Mr. Smith's Pocockius ' is of the sublimer kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the ...
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... late of Merton College , an exact critick in the Greek tongue , from whom it came to my hands . The French version of Monsieur Boileau , though truly valuable , was far short of it . He proposed a large addition to this work , of notes ...
... late of Merton College , an exact critick in the Greek tongue , from whom it came to my hands . The French version of Monsieur Boileau , though truly valuable , was far short of it . He proposed a large addition to this work , of notes ...
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... after his death Joseph Warton , in The Adventurer , No. 59 , described how ' minute rhymers neg- lect to change their linen because Smith was a sloven . ' This story I heard from the late Mr. Clark of 14 EDMUND SMITH.
... after his death Joseph Warton , in The Adventurer , No. 59 , described how ' minute rhymers neg- lect to change their linen because Smith was a sloven . ' This story I heard from the late Mr. Clark of 14 EDMUND SMITH.
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... late learned and ingenious Mr. Thomas Clark of Lincoln's Inn . ' 2 For his Phaedra and Hippolitus Addison wrote the prologue ( Addi- son's Works , vi . 533 ) and Prior the epilogue ( Eng . Poets , xxxiii . 92 ) , in which he is very ...
... late learned and ingenious Mr. Thomas Clark of Lincoln's Inn . ' 2 For his Phaedra and Hippolitus Addison wrote the prologue ( Addi- son's Works , vi . 533 ) and Prior the epilogue ( Eng . Poets , xxxiii . 92 ) , in which he is very ...
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