“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise ...
... delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College Exercise ...
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... delights of mean company . His Chloe probably was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his wenches , perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his ...
... delights of mean company . His Chloe probably was sometimes ideal ; but the woman with whom he cohabited was a despicable drab of the lowest species . One of his wenches , perhaps Chloe , while he was absent from his house , stole his ...
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... delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty ... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher tai reason . If Prior's poetry be ...
... delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty ... delight ; many from which the poet may learn to write , and the philosopher tai reason . If Prior's poetry be ...
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... delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or prey . his The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages , the general tenor and tendency of his plays must ...
... delight ; he was not to be frighted from his purpose or prey . his The cause of Congreve was not tenable ; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages , the general tenor and tendency of his plays must ...
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... delighted with the song of Mapas , which is therefore subjoined to this narrative . " " It is remarked by Pope , that what " raises the hero often sinks the man . ' Of Blackmore it may be said , that , as the poet sinks , the man rises ...
... delighted with the song of Mapas , which is therefore subjoined to this narrative . " " It is remarked by Pope , that what " raises the hero often sinks the man . ' Of Blackmore it may be said , that , as the poet sinks , the man rises ...
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