The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... once most of the living writers , from Dryden to D'Urfey . His onset was violent ; those passages , which , while they stood single had passed with little notice , when they were accumulated and exposed together , excited horror ; the ...
... once most of the living writers , from Dryden to D'Urfey . His onset was violent ; those passages , which , while they stood single had passed with little notice , when they were accumulated and exposed together , excited horror ; the ...
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... once more brought into the house of Dagon , to make sport for the Philistines ! " Congreve's last play was " The Way of the World ; " which , though as he hints in his dedica- tion it was written with great labour and much . thought ...
... once more brought into the house of Dagon , to make sport for the Philistines ! " Congreve's last play was " The Way of the World ; " which , though as he hints in his dedica- tion it was written with great labour and much . thought ...
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... once a school- master , is the only reproach which all the perspi- cacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he says , of Dr. Sydenham ...
... once a school- master , is the only reproach which all the perspi- cacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he says , of Dr. Sydenham ...
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... once ge- nerous and unjust , impious lovers of their coun- try and flagitious heroes , good - natured sharpers , immoral men of honour , and libertines who will sooner die than change their religion ; and though it is true that ...
... once ge- nerous and unjust , impious lovers of their coun- try and flagitious heroes , good - natured sharpers , immoral men of honour , and libertines who will sooner die than change their religion ; and though it is true that ...
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... once invidiously great , for- sook him in the latter part of his life ; but being by nature , or by principle , averse from idleness , he employed his unwelcome leisure in writing books on physic , and teaching others to cure those whom ...
... once invidiously great , for- sook him in the latter part of his life ; but being by nature , or by principle , averse from idleness , he employed his unwelcome leisure in writing books on physic , and teaching others to cure those whom ...
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