Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 216
... tell him that I was not the author ; and therefore , I tell you , Mr. Bettesworth , that I am not the author of these lines . ' Bettesworth was so little satisfied with this account , that he publickly professed his resolution of a ...
... tell him that I was not the author ; and therefore , I tell you , Mr. Bettesworth , that I am not the author of these lines . ' Bettesworth was so little satisfied with this account , that he publickly professed his resolution of a ...
Page 326
... tell stories of heroes , and it is there- fore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural but lately censured . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient ...
... tell stories of heroes , and it is there- fore strange that Pope should adopt a fiction not only unnatural but lately censured . The story of Lodona is told with sweetness ; but a new metamorphosis is a ready and puerile expedient ...
Page 352
... tell all that can be conveniently told in verse , and then to call in the help of prose , has always the appearance of a very artless expedient , or of an attempt unaccomplished . Such an epitaph resembles the conversation of a ...
... tell all that can be conveniently told in verse , and then to call in the help of prose , has always the appearance of a very artless expedient , or of an attempt unaccomplished . Such an epitaph resembles the conversation of a ...
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