The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Samuel Johnson. PRIOR . To the close rock the frighted raven flies , Soon as the rising eagle cuts the air : The shaggy wolf unseen and trembling lies , When the hoarse roar proclaims the lion near . Ill - starr'd did we our forts and ...
Samuel Johnson. PRIOR . To the close rock the frighted raven flies , Soon as the rising eagle cuts the air : The shaggy wolf unseen and trembling lies , When the hoarse roar proclaims the lion near . Ill - starr'd did we our forts and ...
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... soon after gave him a place in the Pipe - office , and another in the Customs of six hundred pounds a year . Con- greve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such ...
... soon after gave him a place in the Pipe - office , and another in the Customs of six hundred pounds a year . Con- greve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such ...
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... soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despica- ble effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his prolific pen produced " Love for Love ; " a ...
... soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despica- ble effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his prolific pen produced " Love for Love ; " a ...
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... soon the shady scene withdrew . And now , for woods , and fields , and springing flowers , Behold a town arise , bulwark'd with walls and lofty towers ; Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread , Each in battalia rang'd , and shining ...
... soon the shady scene withdrew . And now , for woods , and fields , and springing flowers , Behold a town arise , bulwark'd with walls and lofty towers ; Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread , Each in battalia rang'd , and shining ...
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... soon after ( Oct. 1 ) chosen Censor . He seems to have arrived late , whatever was the reason , at his medical honours . Having succeeded so well in his book on " Crea tion , " by which he established the great principle of all religion ...
... soon after ( Oct. 1 ) chosen Censor . He seems to have arrived late , whatever was the reason , at his medical honours . Having succeeded so well in his book on " Crea tion , " by which he established the great principle of all religion ...
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