The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College ...
... shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with the College ...
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... shew the waste of public money , the unreason- able conduct of the allies , the avarice of generals , the tyranny of minions , and the general danger of approaching ruin . For this purpose a paper called " The Examiner " was ...
... shew the waste of public money , the unreason- able conduct of the allies , the avarice of generals , the tyranny of minions , and the general danger of approaching ruin . For this purpose a paper called " The Examiner " was ...
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... shew : SPENSER . She flying fast from Heaven's hated face , And from the world that her discovered wide , Fled to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd ...
... shew : SPENSER . She flying fast from Heaven's hated face , And from the world that her discovered wide , Fled to the wasteful wilderness apace , From living eyes her open shame to hide , And lurk'd in rocks and caves long unespy'd ...
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... shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment , the plot is busy ...
... shew him sufficiently qualified for either kind of dramatic poetry . In this play , of which , when he afterwards revised it , he reduced the versification to greater regularity , there is more bustle than sentiment , the plot is busy ...
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... shew what they shall have to catch and carry : ' Twas now , when flowery lawns the prospect made , And flowing brooks beneath a forest - shade , A lowing heifer , loveliest of the herd , Stood feeding by ; while two fierce bulls prepar ...
... shew what they shall have to catch and carry : ' Twas now , when flowery lawns the prospect made , And flowing brooks beneath a forest - shade , A lowing heifer , loveliest of the herd , Stood feeding by ; while two fierce bulls prepar ...
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