The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... known only as it appended to his plays . While comedy or while tragedy is regarded , his plays are likely to be read ; but , except what re- lates to the stage , I know not that he has ever written a stanza that is sung or a couplet ...
... known only as it appended to his plays . While comedy or while tragedy is regarded , his plays are likely to be read ; but , except what re- lates to the stage , I know not that he has ever written a stanza that is sung or a couplet ...
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Samuel Johnson. In some part of his life , it is not known when , his indigence compelled him to teach a school , an humiliation with which , though it certainly lasted but a little while , his enemies did not forget to re- proach him ...
Samuel Johnson. In some part of his life , it is not known when , his indigence compelled him to teach a school , an humiliation with which , though it certainly lasted but a little while , his enemies did not forget to re- proach him ...
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Samuel Johnson. lic work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he re- lates , " by such catches and starts , and in such oc- casional ...
Samuel Johnson. lic work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he re- lates , " by such catches and starts , and in such oc- casional ...
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... known . That he had been . of considerable use , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him to have been very honest ; but he might easily make a false estimate of his own im- portance : those whom their virtue restrains from ...
... known . That he had been . of considerable use , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him to have been very honest ; but he might easily make a false estimate of his own im- portance : those whom their virtue restrains from ...
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... known to be transcribed : but some notice is due to the testimo- ny of Dennis , who calls it a " philosophical poem , which has equalled that of Lucretius in the beauty of its versification , and infinitely surpassed it in the solidity ...
... known to be transcribed : but some notice is due to the testimo- ny of Dennis , who calls it a " philosophical poem , which has equalled that of Lucretius in the beauty of its versification , and infinitely surpassed it in the solidity ...
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