“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so pleasing to King William ...
... formed the grand alliance against Louis , which at last did not produce effects proportionate to the magnificence of the transaction . The conduct of Prior in this splendid initiation into public business was so pleasing to King William ...
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... formed at once ; the words did not come till they were called , and were then put by constraint into their places , where they do their duty , but do it sullenly . In his greater compositions there may be found more rigid stateliness ...
... formed at once ; the words did not come till they were called , and were then put by constraint into their places , where they do their duty , but do it sullenly . In his greater compositions there may be found more rigid stateliness ...
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... formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those ...
... formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those ...
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... formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected an- swers ; but that which he endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or ...
... formed a peculiar idea of comic excellence , which he supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected an- swers ; but that which he endeavoured he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or ...
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... formed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators : men , who have ...
... formed by a judgment free and unbiassed by the authority of those who have lazily followed each other in the same beaten track of thinking , and are arrived only at the reputation of acute grammarians and commentators : men , who have ...
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