Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given . His first perform- ance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . It is praised by the biographers , who ...
... imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given . His first perform- ance was a novel , called Incognita , or Love and Duty reconciled . It is praised by the biographers , who ...
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... imagination not to be sup- pressed . During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance , he was with- out lodging , and often without meat ; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields ...
... imagination not to be sup- pressed . During a considerable part of the time in which he was employed upon this performance , he was with- out lodging , and often without meat ; nor had he any other conveniences for study than the fields ...
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... imaginations ; and seldom appeared to be melancholy , but when some sudden mis- fortune had just fallen upon him , and even ... imagination ; and , as Sir Robert Walpole had before given him reason to believe that he never intended the ...
... imaginations ; and seldom appeared to be melancholy , but when some sudden mis- fortune had just fallen upon him , and even ... imagination ; and , as Sir Robert Walpole had before given him reason to believe that he never intended the ...
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