“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , near Charing Cross , who sent him ...
... hope , like Don Quixote , that the historian of his actions might find him some illustrious alliance . He is supposed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner , near Charing Cross , who sent him ...
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... hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion proceeded from accident or ...
... hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall sport no more in arbitrary sound . Whether the similitude of those passages , which exhibit the same thought on the same occasion proceeded from accident or ...
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... hope that they might , by driving the whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might convey intelligence of past abuses , and shew the waste of public money ...
... hope that they might , by driving the whigs from court and from power , gratify at once the Queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might convey intelligence of past abuses , and shew the waste of public money ...
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... hope for any other notice than such as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius , which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of ...
... hope for any other notice than such as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius , which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of ...
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... insolence of advising Fenton to engage himself in some employment of honest labour , by which he might obtain that support which he could never hope from his poetry . The play was acted at the other theatre ; and the FENTON . 47.
... insolence of advising Fenton to engage himself in some employment of honest labour , by which he might obtain that support which he could never hope from his poetry . The play was acted at the other theatre ; and the FENTON . 47.
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