“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... , as a native of Winborne , he is styled Filius Georgii Prior , generosi ; not consistently with the common account of the meanness of his birth . Johnson's Lives . II . 1 posed that he was distinguished among his contemporaries . He PRIOR.
... , as a native of Winborne , he is styled Filius Georgii Prior , generosi ; not consistently with the common account of the meanness of his birth . Johnson's Lives . II . 1 posed that he was distinguished among his contemporaries . He PRIOR.
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... common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the ...
... common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the ...
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... common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of : light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigrammatists , and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure au ...
... common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of : light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigrammatists , and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure au ...
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... common life , of real manners , and daily inci- dents , it apparently pre - supposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can ...
... common life , of real manners , and daily inci- dents , it apparently pre - supposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can ...
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... common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is ...
... common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is ...
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