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... Muse's Complaint ( by “ C , ” in Scols Mag . , 1742 , iv . 166 ) , which speaks of him as " chief of modern bards " ; Charles Graham's Eulogium ( Universal Mag . , 1785 , lxxvii . 98 ) , which declares , " No poet since has equal'd him ...
... Muse's Complaint ( by “ C , ” in Scols Mag . , 1742 , iv . 166 ) , which speaks of him as " chief of modern bards " ; Charles Graham's Eulogium ( Universal Mag . , 1785 , lxxvii . 98 ) , which declares , " No poet since has equal'd him ...
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... Muse's Annals grace . " " We still prefer the extravagant beauties of Shake- speare and Milton to the cold and well - disciplined merit of Addison and . . . Pope , " remarked Horace Walpole ( letter to Élie de Beaumont , March 18 , 1765 ) ...
... Muse's Annals grace . " " We still prefer the extravagant beauties of Shake- speare and Milton to the cold and well - disciplined merit of Addison and . . . Pope , " remarked Horace Walpole ( letter to Élie de Beaumont , March 18 , 1765 ) ...
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... Muse of Alexis ( 1695 , ib . 836 ) there is a reference to " Comus Feast " ( Good , p . 141 ) . • Court of Dulness , in Letters and Works ( Bohn ed . ) , ii . 487-9 ; cf. Lines written in a Blank Page of P. L. ( ib . 523 ) ...
... Muse of Alexis ( 1695 , ib . 836 ) there is a reference to " Comus Feast " ( Good , p . 141 ) . • Court of Dulness , in Letters and Works ( Bohn ed . ) , ii . 487-9 ; cf. Lines written in a Blank Page of P. L. ( ib . 523 ) ...
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... Muse , compiled by James Greenwood . 2 By Eliza W. Bradburn , Portland , 1830 , " first American , from the London edi- tion . " Cf. below , p . 36 . 3 C. F. Adams , in the New York Nation , lxxxvii . 600 ( 1908 ) . According to Mr ...
... Muse , compiled by James Greenwood . 2 By Eliza W. Bradburn , Portland , 1830 , " first American , from the London edi- tion . " Cf. below , p . 36 . 3 C. F. Adams , in the New York Nation , lxxxvii . 600 ( 1908 ) . According to Mr ...
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... MUSE ! But the assistance which the less educated readers found most to their taste was more direct and even more astonishing than these makeshifts . It was a prose version , and , what is more , an English translation of a French ...
... MUSE ! But the assistance which the less educated readers found most to their taste was more direct and even more astonishing than these makeshifts . It was a prose version , and , what is more , an English translation of a French ...
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