Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... kind . We owe to Gay the Ballad Opera ; a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the experience of half a century been found so well accommodated to the disposition of a popular ...
... kind . We owe to Gay the Ballad Opera ; a mode of comedy which at first was supposed to delight only by its novelty , but has now by the experience of half a century been found so well accommodated to the disposition of a popular ...
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... kind . Under such a tutor , Mr. Savage was not likely to learn prudence or frugality ; and perhaps many of the misfortunes , which the want of those virtues brought upon him in the following parts of his life , might be justly imputed ...
... kind . Under such a tutor , Mr. Savage was not likely to learn prudence or frugality ; and perhaps many of the misfortunes , which the want of those virtues brought upon him in the following parts of his life , might be justly imputed ...
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... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has surpassed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
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