Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1952 - English poetry |
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Page 312
... perhaps the like return might properly be made to a modern Pindarist , as Mr. Cobb received from Bentley , who , when he found his criticisms upon a Greek exercise , which Cobb had presented , refuted one after another by Pindar's ...
... perhaps the like return might properly be made to a modern Pindarist , as Mr. Cobb received from Bentley , who , when he found his criticisms upon a Greek exercise , which Cobb had presented , refuted one after another by Pindar's ...
Page 346
... perhaps were ever produced by one nation of the same author . Pitt engaging as a rival with Dryden , naturally observed his failures , and avoided them ; and , as he wrote after Pope's Iliad , he had an example of an exact , equable ...
... perhaps were ever produced by one nation of the same author . Pitt engaging as a rival with Dryden , naturally observed his failures , and avoided them ; and , as he wrote after Pope's Iliad , he had an example of an exact , equable ...
Page 418
... perhaps a melancholy disposition for the father , proceeds next to invent an argument in support of their invention , and chooses that Lorenzo should be Young's own son . The Biographia and every account of Young pretty soundly assert ...
... perhaps a melancholy disposition for the father , proceeds next to invent an argument in support of their invention , and chooses that Lorenzo should be Young's own son . The Biographia and every account of Young pretty soundly assert ...
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