Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . ' Soon after the duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It ...
... give the best turn thy fertile brain will furnish thee with to the blunders of thy countrymen , who are not much better politicians than the French are poets . ' Soon after the duke of Shrewsbury went on a formal embassy to Paris . It ...
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... give . He did not grow rich by injuring his suc- cessors , but left both Laracor and the Deanery more valuable than he found them . - With all this talk of his covetousness and generosity , it should be remembered that he was never rich ...
... give . He did not grow rich by injuring his suc- cessors , but left both Laracor and the Deanery more valuable than he found them . - With all this talk of his covetousness and generosity , it should be remembered that he was never rich ...
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... give in exchange the bar , though not at so late a period of life as Young took Orders , it will be owing , in no small measure , to my having had the happiness of calling the author of The Rambler my friend . ' Oxford , Sept. 1782 ...
... give in exchange the bar , though not at so late a period of life as Young took Orders , it will be owing , in no small measure , to my having had the happiness of calling the author of The Rambler my friend . ' Oxford , Sept. 1782 ...
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