The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 15
... regard with veneration . His affection was natural ; it had undoubt- edly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had ...
... regard with veneration . His affection was natural ; it had undoubt- edly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infused into it much knowledge and much thought ; had ...
Page 23
... regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is very pleasant . With this play was opened the New Theatre , under the direction of Betterton , the tragedian ; where he exhibited , two years afterwards , ( 1687 ) ...
... regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is very pleasant . With this play was opened the New Theatre , under the direction of Betterton , the tragedian ; where he exhibited , two years afterwards , ( 1687 ) ...
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... regard to his determinations concerning ancient learning . " As for his book of Aphorisms , it is like my Lord Bacon's of the same title , a book of jests , or a grave collection of trite and trifling observations ; of which though many ...
... regard to his determinations concerning ancient learning . " As for his book of Aphorisms , it is like my Lord Bacon's of the same title , a book of jests , or a grave collection of trite and trifling observations ; of which though many ...
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... regard for song himself , but happened to employ ministers who pleased themselves with the praise of patronage . Of this ode mention is made in a humorous poem of that time , called " The Oxford Laureat : " in which , after many claims ...
... regard for song himself , but happened to employ ministers who pleased themselves with the praise of patronage . Of this ode mention is made in a humorous poem of that time , called " The Oxford Laureat : " in which , after many claims ...
Page 72
... regard , for they contain some of the most elegant encomiastic strains ; and , among the innumerable poems of the same kind , it will be hard to find one with which they need to fear a comparison . It may deserve observation , that ...
... regard , for they contain some of the most elegant encomiastic strains ; and , among the innumerable poems of the same kind , it will be hard to find one with which they need to fear a comparison . It may deserve observation , that ...
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