“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler by ...
... never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to have written the casual dictates of the present moment . What Horace said , when he imitated Lucilius , might be said of Butler by ...
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... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tis sues of 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 ...
... never made any effort of invention : his greater pieces are only tis sues of 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 ...
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... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled ser timents : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If ...
... never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor indulges himself in contemptuous negligence , or impatient idleness : he has no careless lines , or entangled ser timents : his words are nicely selected , and his thoughts fully expanded . If ...
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... never make him suspected for a puritan ; he therefore ( 1698 ) published " A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was ...
... never make him suspected for a puritan ; he therefore ( 1698 ) published " A short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage , " I believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was ...
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... never violated ; and when , upon the extrusion of the whigs , some intercession was used lest Congreve should be displaced , the Earl of Oxford made this answer : " Non obtusa adco gestamus pectora Poni , Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol ...
... never violated ; and when , upon the extrusion of the whigs , some intercession was used lest Congreve should be displaced , the Earl of Oxford made this answer : " Non obtusa adco gestamus pectora Poni , Nec tam aversus equos Tyria sol ...
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