Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... verses , till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , by such catches and ... verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . He thinks , and with some reason , that from ...
... verses , till he published ( in 1695 ) Prince Arthur , in ten books , written , as he relates , by such catches and ... verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . He thinks , and with some reason , that from ...
Page 296
... verse and prose : the verses are in this poem ; and the prose , though it was never sent , is printed among his Letters , but to a cool reader of the present time exhibits nothing but tedious malignity In His last Satires , of the ...
... verse and prose : the verses are in this poem ; and the prose , though it was never sent , is printed among his Letters , but to a cool reader of the present time exhibits nothing but tedious malignity In His last Satires , of the ...
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... verses was his first labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never diverted . If conversation offered anything that could be im- proved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an ...
... verses was his first labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never diverted . If conversation offered anything that could be im- proved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an ...
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