Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 84
... seems to be his best performance , and is , for the most part , imagined with great vigour , and expressed with great propriety . I will not transcribe it . The seven first stanzas are good ; but the third , fourth , and seventh are the ...
... seems to be his best performance , and is , for the most part , imagined with great vigour , and expressed with great propriety . I will not transcribe it . The seven first stanzas are good ; but the third , fourth , and seventh are the ...
Page 312
... seems to be of an opinion not very uncommon in the world , that to want money is to want every thing . Next to the pleasure of contemplating his posses- sions , seems to be that of enumerating the men of high rank with whom he was ...
... seems to be of an opinion not very uncommon in the world , that to want money is to want every thing . Next to the pleasure of contemplating his posses- sions , seems to be that of enumerating the men of high rank with whom he was ...
Page 489
... seems to have deserved , and whom , having once espoused his interest and fame , he never was persuaded to disown . Bower , whatever was his moral character , did not want abilities ; attacked as he was by an universal outcry , and that ...
... seems to have deserved , and whom , having once espoused his interest and fame , he never was persuaded to disown . Bower , whatever was his moral character , did not want abilities ; attacked as he was by an universal outcry , and that ...
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