“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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Page 7
... writing answers different from those which they received . Prior , however , seems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confesses that he signed what , if he had ever come before a legal judicature , he should have ...
... writing answers different from those which they received . Prior , however , seems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confesses that he signed what , if he had ever come before a legal judicature , he should have ...
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... write his attestation on the wrong side of the paper . They were very industrious to find some charge against Oxford ; and asked Prior , with great earnestness , who was present when the preliminary articles were talked_of_or signed at ...
... write his attestation on the wrong side of the paper . They were very industrious to find some charge against Oxford ; and asked Prior , with great earnestness , who was present when the preliminary articles were talked_of_or signed at ...
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... write something about Chloe , and trying to be amorous by dint of study . His fictions therefore are mytholo- gical . Venus , after the example of the Greek Epigram , asks when she was seen naked and bathing . Then Cupid is mistaken ...
... write something about Chloe , and trying to be amorous by dint of study . His fictions therefore are mytholo- gical . Venus , after the example of the Greek Epigram , asks when she was seen naked and bathing . Then Cupid is mistaken ...
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... write ; and of the " Carmen Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice , without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected ...
... write ; and of the " Carmen Seculare , " I cannot but suspect that I might praise or censure it by caprice , without danger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected ...
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... write , and the philosopher tai reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass , of comprehension , or activity of fancy . He never made any effort of ...
... write , and the philosopher tai reason . If Prior's poetry be generally considered , his praise will be that of correctness and industry , rather than of compass , of comprehension , or activity of fancy . He never made any effort of ...
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