Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... 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 most delicate and surprising turns ...
... 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 most delicate and surprising turns ...
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... manners are so distant from our own that we know them not from sympathy , but by study : the ignorant do not understand the action , the learned reject it as a school - boy's tale ; incredulus odi " . What I cannot for a moment believe ...
... manners are so distant from our own that we know them not from sympathy , but by study : the ignorant do not understand the action , the learned reject it as a school - boy's tale ; incredulus odi " . What I cannot for a moment believe ...
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... manner . Hist . of Eng . 1735 , Pref . p . 4. ] • · In 1704 Atterbury wrote : - ' The Tale of a Tub comes from Christ Church . The authors are now supposed generally at Oxford to be one Smith and one Philips , the first a Student , the ...
... manner . Hist . of Eng . 1735 , Pref . p . 4. ] • · In 1704 Atterbury wrote : - ' The Tale of a Tub comes from Christ Church . The authors are now supposed generally at Oxford to be one Smith and one Philips , the first a Student , the ...
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... manner , as a grand compounder ; whence it is inferred that he inherited a considerable fortune " . 3 In 1688 , the same year in which he was made master of arts ' , he published a confutation of Varillas's account of Wicliffe ; and , I ...
... manner , as a grand compounder ; whence it is inferred that he inherited a considerable fortune " . 3 In 1688 , the same year in which he was made master of arts ' , he published a confutation of Varillas's account of Wicliffe ; and , I ...
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... , yet he was so addicted to the buffooning way , that he neglected his proper business , grew very poor , and so died in a sort of contemptible manner . ' Hearne's Remains , i . 271 . SPRAT ' HOMAS SPRAT was born in 1636 , at KING 31.
... , yet he was so addicted to the buffooning way , that he neglected his proper business , grew very poor , and so died in a sort of contemptible manner . ' Hearne's Remains , i . 271 . SPRAT ' HOMAS SPRAT was born in 1636 , at KING 31.
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