Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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... . ANTONY . I'm now turned wild , a commoner of nature . ' DRYDEN , All for Love , i . I , Works , v . 351 . Burns has ' commoners of air'in the Epistle to Davie . 4 shifts . Whoever mentioned Fenton , mentioned him with FENTON.
... . ANTONY . I'm now turned wild , a commoner of nature . ' DRYDEN , All for Love , i . I , Works , v . 351 . Burns has ' commoners of air'in the Epistle to Davie . 4 shifts . Whoever mentioned Fenton , mentioned him with FENTON.
Page 258
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. 4 shifts . Whoever mentioned Fenton , mentioned him with honour 2 . The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity . It is impossible to trace Fenton from year to year , or ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. 4 shifts . Whoever mentioned Fenton , mentioned him with honour 2 . The life that passes in penury must necessarily pass in obscurity . It is impossible to trace Fenton from year to year , or ...
Page 337
... mentioning her , but celebrates her not for her virtue , but her beauty , an excellence which none ever denied her ... mentioned with gratitude the humanity of one lady , whose name I am now unable to recollect , and to whom therefore ...
... mentioning her , but celebrates her not for her virtue , but her beauty , an excellence which none ever denied her ... mentioned with gratitude the humanity of one lady , whose name I am now unable to recollect , and to whom therefore ...
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