Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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Page 416
... Night Thoughts Philander and Narcissa are often mentioned , and often lamented . To recollect lamentations over the author's wife , the memory must have been charged with distinct passages . This Lady brought him one child , Frederick ...
... Night Thoughts Philander and Narcissa are often mentioned , and often lamented . To recollect lamentations over the author's wife , the memory must have been charged with distinct passages . This Lady brought him one child , Frederick ...
Page 419
... Night , the address to the Poet's supposed son is , Lorenzo , Fortune makes her court to thee . In the fifth Night— And burns Lorenzo still for the sublime Of life ? to hang his airy nest on high ? ' Is this a picture of the son of the ...
... Night , the address to the Poet's supposed son is , Lorenzo , Fortune makes her court to thee . In the fifth Night— And burns Lorenzo still for the sublime Of life ? to hang his airy nest on high ? ' Is this a picture of the son of the ...
Page 421
... Night Thoughts only by veneration for the Poet and the Christian , may be allowed to observe , that Young is one of those concerning whom , as you remark in your account of Addison , it is proper rather to say " nothing that is false ...
... Night Thoughts only by veneration for the Poet and the Christian , may be allowed to observe , that Young is one of those concerning whom , as you remark in your account of Addison , it is proper rather to say " nothing that is false ...
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