“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... shewn the victories of Louis , painted by Le Brun , and asked whether the King of England's palace had any such decorations : " The monuments of my master's actions , ' " said he , " are to be seen every where but in his own house ...
... shewn the victories of Louis , painted by Le Brun , and asked whether the King of England's palace had any such decorations : " The monuments of my master's actions , ' " said he , " are to be seen every where but in his own house ...
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... shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his " Old Bachelor . " Neither the time nor place of his birth is certainly known ; if the inscription upon his monument be true , he was born in 1672. For the place ...
... shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his " Old Bachelor . " Neither the time nor place of his birth is certainly known ; if the inscription upon his monument be true , he was born in 1672. For the place ...
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... shewn in " Love for Love . " His " Art of Pleasing " is founded on a vulgar , but perhaps impracticable , principle , and the staleness of the sense is not concealed by any novelty of illustration or elegance of diction . 24 This tissue ...
... shewn in " Love for Love . " His " Art of Pleasing " is founded on a vulgar , but perhaps impracticable , principle , and the staleness of the sense is not concealed by any novelty of illustration or elegance of diction . 24 This tissue ...
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... shewn to Cibber , it was rejected by him , with the additional 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 ...
... shewn to Cibber , it was rejected by him , with the additional 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 ...
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... shewn particular tenderness , his health was restored ; and , returning to his studies , he wrote a tragedy called " The Captives , " which he was invited to read before the Princess of Wales . When the hour came , he saw the Princess ...
... shewn particular tenderness , his health was restored ; and , returning to his studies , he wrote a tragedy called " The Captives , " which he was invited to read before the Princess of Wales . When the hour came , he saw the Princess ...
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