The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was presented to the King , by whom it was not likely to be ever read . In two years he was secretary to another embassy , at the treaty of Ryswick ( in 1697 ) ...
... diligent to miss this opportunity of respect . He wrote a long ode , which was presented to the King , by whom it was not likely to be ever read . In two years he was secretary to another embassy , at the treaty of Ryswick ( in 1697 ) ...
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... diligence and his judgment . His diligence has justly placed him amongst the most correct of the English poets ; and he was one of the first that resolutely endeavoured at correctness . He never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor ...
... diligence and his judgment . His diligence has justly placed him amongst the most correct of the English poets ; and he was one of the first that resolutely endeavoured at correctness . He never sacrifices accuracy to haste , nor ...
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... diligence may attain ; they seldom offend the ear , and seldom soothe it ; they commonly want airiness , lightness , and facility : what is smooth is not soft . His verses always roll , but they seldom flow . A survey of the life and ...
... diligence may attain ; they seldom offend the ear , and seldom soothe it ; they commonly want airiness , lightness , and facility : what is smooth is not soft . His verses always roll , but they seldom flow . A survey of the life and ...
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... diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius , which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began ...
... diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius , which literary history records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that more surpasses the common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began ...
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... diligence will prove a more able and useful practiser than a heavy national scholar , encumbered with a heap of confused ideas . " He was not only a poet and a physician , but produced like- wise a work of a different kind , " A true ...
... diligence will prove a more able and useful practiser than a heavy national scholar , encumbered with a heap of confused ideas . " He was not only a poet and a physician , but produced like- wise a work of a different kind , " A true ...
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