Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... success , seem to have recommended him to some notice ; for his praise of the countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same ...
... success , seem to have recommended him to some notice ; for his praise of the countess's music , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reason for imagining that he was more or less conversant with that family . The same ...
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... success ; his interrupted lines are unpleasing , and his sense , as less distinct , is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little ...
... success ; his interrupted lines are unpleasing , and his sense , as less distinct , is less striking . He has altered the stanza of Spenser as a house is altered by building another in its place of a different form . With how little ...
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... success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession , by which something might be gotten , and about the time of the Revolution sent him , at the age of sixteen , to study law in the Middle Temple , where he lived for ...
... success , his father thought it proper to assign him a profession , by which something might be gotten , and about the time of the Revolution sent him , at the age of sixteen , to study law in the Middle Temple , where he lived for ...
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... success of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , pro- bably of this , that when Congreve read it to the players he pronounced it so wretchedly , that they had ...
... success of its exhibition , and by their greater experience fitted it for the stage . Southern used to relate of one comedy , pro- bably of this , that when Congreve read it to the players he pronounced it so wretchedly , that they had ...
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... success , and impatient of censure , assumed an air of confidence and security . His chief art of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words he is very angry , and hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons , allows ...
... success , and impatient of censure , assumed an air of confidence and security . His chief art of controversy is to retort upon his adversary his own words he is very angry , and hoping to conquer Collier with his own weapons , allows ...
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