Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... reputation ; though it must certainly have been with farther views that he prevailed upon himself to attempt a species of writing , of which all the topics had been long before exhausted , and which was made at once difficult by the ...
... reputation ; though it must certainly have been with farther views that he prevailed upon himself to attempt a species of writing , of which all the topics had been long before exhausted , and which was made at once difficult by the ...
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... reputation of this great work failed of gaining him a patron ; but it deprived him of a friend . Addi- son and he were now at the head of poetry and criticism ; and both in such a state of elevation , that , like the two rivals in the ...
... reputation of this great work failed of gaining him a patron ; but it deprived him of a friend . Addi- son and he were now at the head of poetry and criticism ; and both in such a state of elevation , that , like the two rivals in the ...
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... reputation , and afterwards to keep it . Of composition there are different methods . Some employ at once memory and invention , and , with little intermediate use of the pen , form and polish large masses by continued meditation , and ...
... reputation , and afterwards to keep it . Of composition there are different methods . Some employ at once memory and invention , and , with little intermediate use of the pen , form and polish large masses by continued meditation , and ...
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