The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... , as a native of Winborne , he is styled Filius Georgii Prior , generosi ; not consistently with the common account of the meanness of his birth . Johnson's Lives . II . 1 posed that he was distinguished among his contemporaries . He PRIOR-
... , as a native of Winborne , he is styled Filius Georgii Prior , generosi ; not consistently with the common account of the meanness of his birth . Johnson's Lives . II . 1 posed that he was distinguished among his contemporaries . He PRIOR-
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... common soldier and his wife , in Long Acre , before he went to bed ; not from any remains of the lowness of his original , as one said , but , I suppose , that his faculties , Strain'd to the height , In that celestial colloquy sublime ...
... common soldier and his wife , in Long Acre , before he went to bed ; not from any remains of the lowness of his original , as one said , but , I suppose , that his faculties , Strain'd to the height , In that celestial colloquy sublime ...
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... common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the ...
... common master . His poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the ...
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... common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigrammatists , and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure au- thors ...
... common thoughts ; and his smaller , which consist of light images or single conceits , are not always his own . I have traced him among the French epigrammatists , and have been informed that he poached for prey among obscure au- thors ...
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... common life , of real manners , and daily inci- dents , it apparently pre - supposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can ...
... common life , of real manners , and daily inci- dents , it apparently pre - supposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can ...
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