The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 15
... least one accidental resemblance : " Hudibras " wants a plan , because it is left imperfect ; " Alma " is imperfect , because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to ...
... least one accidental resemblance : " Hudibras " wants a plan , because it is left imperfect ; " Alma " is imperfect , because it seems never to have had a plan . Prior appears not to have proposed to himself any drift or design , but to ...
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... least able to discover . We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the great ...
... least able to discover . We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the great ...
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... least , the residence of his ancestors ; and , I believe , more places than one are still shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his " Old Bachelor . " Neither the time nor place of his birth is certainly ...
... least , the residence of his ancestors ; and , I believe , more places than one are still shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his " Old Bachelor . " Neither the time nor place of his birth is certainly ...
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... least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some con- sideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry professes the imitation of common life , of real manners , and daily inci ...
... least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some con- sideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry professes the imitation of common life , of real manners , and daily inci ...
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... least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his whole life . His ardour of poetry still continued ; and not long after Johnson's Lives . II . 3 ( 1700 ) he published " A Paraphrase on the BLACKMORE . 33.
... least approved it , and adhered invariably to his principles and party through his whole life . His ardour of poetry still continued ; and not long after Johnson's Lives . II . 3 ( 1700 ) he published " A Paraphrase on the BLACKMORE . 33.
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