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... volume . Editions of the poet and essays on his works contain but a fraction of the writings on the subject . Periodicals , histories , biographies , letters , novels , poems , religious tracts , and political pamphlets , as well as ...
... volume . Editions of the poet and essays on his works contain but a fraction of the writings on the subject . Periodicals , histories , biographies , letters , novels , poems , religious tracts , and political pamphlets , as well as ...
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... volume , descended from the table , made his bow , and without a word disap- peared .... The next morning a pacquet was transmitted to Miss Seward , enclosing an elaborate critique on the English Homer " ( Notes and Queries , 3d series ...
... volume , descended from the table , made his bow , and without a word disap- peared .... The next morning a pacquet was transmitted to Miss Seward , enclosing an elaborate critique on the English Homer " ( Notes and Queries , 3d series ...
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... volume upon Gray , Collins , and their contem- poraries ; but it is quite unwarranted . Even lyric poets , who natu- rally made more use of the octosyllabics , sonnets , and other short pieces , were as whole - hearted in their ...
... volume upon Gray , Collins , and their contem- poraries ; but it is quite unwarranted . Even lyric poets , who natu- rally made more use of the octosyllabics , sonnets , and other short pieces , were as whole - hearted in their ...
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... volumes , 1 History of my Own Time ( ed . O. Airy , Oxford , 1897 ) , i . 284. This part of the History was written about 1700 ( ib . pp . xxvii , xxxi n . ) . In Jure Divino ( 1706 , book vii , p . 14 n . ) Defoe praised the ' Masterly ...
... volumes , 1 History of my Own Time ( ed . O. Airy , Oxford , 1897 ) , i . 284. This part of the History was written about 1700 ( ib . pp . xxvii , xxxi n . ) . In Jure Divino ( 1706 , book vii , p . 14 n . ) Defoe praised the ' Masterly ...
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... volumes . J. Husbands's Miscellany , published at Oxford in 1731 , contains ten poems that are significantly influenced by Paradise Lost and one by Penseroso . 2 See below , pp . 549-55 , 680-81 . 3 I have collected over twenty passages ...
... volumes . J. Husbands's Miscellany , published at Oxford in 1731 , contains ten poems that are significantly influenced by Paradise Lost and one by Penseroso . 2 See below , pp . 549-55 , 680-81 . 3 I have collected over twenty passages ...
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