Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... 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 ' . ' SUCH is the declamation of Oldisworth , written while his 27 ...
... 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 ' . ' SUCH is the declamation of Oldisworth , written while his 27 ...
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... supposed to have been eagerly received ; but its progress was soon checked for finding its way into the Journal of Trevoux2 it fell under the eye of Atterbury , then an exile in France , who immediately denied the charge , with this ...
... supposed to have been eagerly received ; but its progress was soon checked for finding its way into the Journal of Trevoux2 it fell under the eye of Atterbury , then an exile in France , who immediately denied the charge , with this ...
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... supposed that he had great merit , who could obtain to the same play a prologue from Addison and an epilogue from Prior3 , and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating ...
... supposed that he had great merit , who could obtain to the same play a prologue from Addison and an epilogue from Prior3 , and who could have at once the patronage of Halifax and the praise of Oldisworth . For the power of communicating ...
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... supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of The Examiner . ' King's Remains , p . 13. King and Savage had much in common . Post , SAVAGE , 335 . • Works , i . 211 ; iii . 203. ' He made it upon the happiness of being buried ...
... supposed to have concurred at least in the projection of The Examiner . ' King's Remains , p . 13. King and Savage had much in common . Post , SAVAGE , 335 . • Works , i . 211 ; iii . 203. ' He made it upon the happiness of being buried ...
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... supposed that his poems 18 were rather the amusements of idleness than efforts of study ; that he endeavoured rather to divert than astonish ; that his thoughts seldom aspired to sublimity ; and that , if his verse was easy and his ...
... supposed that his poems 18 were rather the amusements of idleness than efforts of study ; that he endeavoured rather to divert than astonish ; that his thoughts seldom aspired to sublimity ; and that , if his verse was easy and his ...
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