Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . It is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncom- monly judicious . I would rather praise ...
... performance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . It is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncom- monly judicious . I would rather praise ...
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... performance the value certainly is but little ; but it was one of the lucky trifles that give pleasure by novelty , and was so much favoured by the audience , that envy appeared against it in the form of criticism ; and Griffin , a ...
... performance the value certainly is but little ; but it was one of the lucky trifles that give pleasure by novelty , and was so much favoured by the audience , that envy appeared against it in the form of criticism ; and Griffin , a ...
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... performance , has an equability and propriety , which he afterwards either never endeavoured or never attained . Many paragraphs are noble , and few are mean , yet the whole is languid ; the plan is too much extended , and a succession ...
... performance , has an equability and propriety , which he afterwards either never endeavoured or never attained . Many paragraphs are noble , and few are mean , yet the whole is languid ; the plan is too much extended , and a succession ...
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