The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... censured for retaining it , he said , he could live upon at last . Being however generally known and esteemed , he was encouraged to add other poems to those which he had printed , and to publish them by subscription . The expedient suc ...
... censured for retaining it , he said , he could live upon at last . Being however generally known and esteemed , he was encouraged to add other poems to those which he had printed , and to publish them by subscription . The expedient suc ...
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... censure ; for , when he forsook the whigs , under whose patronage he first entered the world , he became a tory so ardent and determinate , that he did not willingly consort with men of different opinions . He was one of the sixteen ...
... censure ; for , when he forsook the whigs , under whose patronage he first entered the world , he became a tory so ardent and determinate , that he did not willingly consort with men of different opinions . He was one of the sixteen ...
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... censure of a man who was confessedly the ornament of the stage . " I know all that , " says the ambassador , " mais il chante si haut , que je ne scaurois vous entendre . " In a gay French company , where every one sang a little song or ...
... censure of a man who was confessedly the ornament of the stage . " I know all that , " says the ambassador , " mais il chante si haut , que je ne scaurois vous entendre . " In a gay French company , where every one sang a little song or ...
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... 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 work was so popular , that it was translated into Latin by no common master . His poem ...
... 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 work was so popular , that it was translated into Latin by no common master . His poem ...
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... all faults : negligences or errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness propagates itself . He that is weary the first PRIOR . 15.
... all faults : negligences or errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole ; other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness propagates itself . He that is weary the first PRIOR . 15.
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