Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... wrote more than twenty years after Smith's 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 ...
... wrote more than twenty years after Smith's 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 ...
Page 15
... wrote the prologue ( Addi- son's Works , vi . 533 ) and Prior the epilogue ( Eng . Poets , xxxiii . 92 ) , in which he is very happily facetious . ' Post , PRIOR , 60. It begins : - ' Ladies , to - night your pity I implore For one who ...
... wrote the prologue ( Addi- son's Works , vi . 533 ) and Prior the epilogue ( Eng . Poets , xxxiii . 92 ) , in which he is very happily facetious . ' Post , PRIOR , 60. It begins : - ' Ladies , to - night your pity I implore For one who ...
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... wrote on Feb. 14 , 1753 : - ' Sir Hans Sloane is dead , and has made me one of the trustees to his museum , which is to be offered for £ 20,000 to the King , the Parliament , ' & c . Letters , ii . 320 . With money raised by lottery ...
... wrote on Feb. 14 , 1753 : - ' Sir Hans Sloane is dead , and has made me one of the trustees to his museum , which is to be offered for £ 20,000 to the King , the Parliament , ' & c . Letters , ii . 320 . With money raised by lottery ...
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... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though 11 fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's ...
... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though 11 fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's ...
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... wrote came from either Wilkins or Oldenburgh . Ib . p . 94. Cowley complimented Sprat in his Ode to the Royal Society ( Eng . Poets , vii . 269 ) : - : - ' And ne'er did fortune better yet Th ' historian to the story fit . · His candid ...
... wrote came from either Wilkins or Oldenburgh . Ib . p . 94. Cowley complimented Sprat in his Ode to the Royal Society ( Eng . Poets , vii . 269 ) : - : - ' And ne'er did fortune better yet Th ' historian to the story fit . · His candid ...
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