Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh Samuel Johnson. description . To reason in verse , is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons poetically ; and finds the art of uniting ornament with ...
With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh Samuel Johnson. description . To reason in verse , is allowed to be difficult ; but Blackmore not only reasons in verse , but very often reasons poetically ; and finds the art of uniting ornament with ...
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... verse , of which however his two first lines give a bad specimen . To this poem praise cannot be totally denied . He is allowed by sportsmen to write with great intelligence of his subject , which is the first requi- site to excellence ...
... verse , of which however his two first lines give a bad specimen . To this poem praise cannot be totally denied . He is allowed by sportsmen to write with great intelligence of his subject , which is the first requi- site to excellence ...
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... verses . Glover rejected , I suppose , with disdain the legacy , and devolved the whole work upon Mallet ; who had from ... verse . This he sold to Vaillant for one hundred and twenty pounds . The first sale was not great , and it is now ...
... verses . Glover rejected , I suppose , with disdain the legacy , and devolved the whole work upon Mallet ; who had from ... verse . This he sold to Vaillant for one hundred and twenty pounds . The first sale was not great , and it is now ...
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