Lives of The English Poets Volume I1961 |
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... gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenser's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took de- light to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet .
... gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment lay Spenser's Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took de- light to read , till , by feeling the charms of verse , he became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet .
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... poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite ... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player have been differently ...
... poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite ... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player have been differently ...
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... poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been ...
... poet writ these two lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' Here is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been ...
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