The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design was dropped , though they are very much to Mr. Smith's honour . The truth is , and I speak it before living witnesses , whilst an ...
... interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design was dropped , though they are very much to Mr. Smith's honour . The truth is , and I speak it before living witnesses , whilst an ...
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... interest , with all the elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is so justly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct ...
... interest , with all the elegant judgement and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is so justly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct ...
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... interest or anxiety . The sentiments thus remote from life are removed yet further by the diction , which is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue , and envelops the thoughts rather than displays them . It is a scholar's play , such ...
... interest or anxiety . The sentiments thus remote from life are removed yet further by the diction , which is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue , and envelops the thoughts rather than displays them . It is a scholar's play , such ...
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... interest and resentment have ceased . : In 1697 , he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what wit could perform in opposition to learning , on a question which learning only could decide ...
... interest and resentment have ceased . : In 1697 , he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what wit could perform in opposition to learning , on a question which learning only could decide ...
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... interest , forget his cares , and desert his duty . Here he wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a poetical interpretation , was meant originally no more than it ...
... interest , forget his cares , and desert his duty . Here he wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a poetical interpretation , was meant originally no more than it ...
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