Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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... produce of the sense in which the general preliminary engagements are entered into ; besides which , as he is the best versed in matters of trade of all your Majesty's servants who have been trusted in this secret , if you shall think ...
... produce of the sense in which the general preliminary engagements are entered into ; besides which , as he is the best versed in matters of trade of all your Majesty's servants who have been trusted in this secret , if you shall think ...
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... produced , is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should ...
... produced , is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure . Perhaps no man ever thought a line superfluous when he first wrote it , or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had subsided . And even if he should ...
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... produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself sometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own tail ...
... produce excellence . Prior is never low , nor very often sublime . It is said by Longinus of Euripides , that he forces himself sometimes into grandeur by violence of effort , as the lion kindles his fury by the lashes of his own tail ...
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... produced , by marrying a woman in a mask . Yet this gay comedy , when all these deductions are made , will still remain the work of very powerful and fertile faculties ; the dialogue is quick and sparkling , the incidents such as seize ...
... produced , by marrying a woman in a mask . Yet this gay comedy , when all these deductions are made , will still remain the work of very powerful and fertile faculties ; the dialogue is quick and sparkling , the incidents such as seize ...
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... produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty- fifth year , before other men , even such as are some time to shine in eminence , have passed their probation of literature , or presume to hope for any other notice than such ...
... produced these four plays before he had passed his twenty- fifth year , before other men , even such as are some time to shine in eminence , have passed their probation of literature , or presume to hope for any other notice than such ...
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