Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... written so much , and translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . Alma is written in professed imitation of Hudibras , and ...
... written so much , and translated so little : the version of Callimachus is sufficiently licentious ; the paraphrase on St. Paul's Exhortation to Charity is eminently beautiful . Alma is written in professed imitation of Hudibras , and ...
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... written , as several know , some years before it was acted . When I wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself , in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was ...
... written , as several know , some years before it was acted . When I wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself , in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was ...
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... writing to the rumbling of his chariot - wheels . He had read , he says , but little poetry throughout his whole life ; and for fifteen years before had not written an hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a ...
... writing to the rumbling of his chariot - wheels . He had read , he says , but little poetry throughout his whole life ; and for fifteen years before had not written an hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a ...
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