The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... never tired with aspiring . Hence it was , that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and trifling , that , like the junior compositions ...
... never tired with aspiring . Hence it was , that , though he writ as young as Cowley , he had no puerilities ; and his earliest productions were so far from having any thing in them mean and trifling , that , like the junior compositions ...
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... never yet saw translated : Meo sum pauper in ære . At his coming to town , no man was more sur- rounded by all those who really had or pretended to wit , or more courted by the great men , who had then a power and opportunity of ...
... never yet saw translated : Meo sum pauper in ære . At his coming to town , no man was more sur- rounded by all those who really had or pretended to wit , or more courted by the great men , who had then a power and opportunity of ...
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... never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our de- mands upon them for their admiration . Some few years before his death ...
... never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our de- mands upon them for their admiration . Some few years before his death ...
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... never otherwise heard . His Longinus he intended to accompany with some illustrations , and had selected his instances of the false sublime from the works of Blackmore . He resolved to try again the fortune of the stage , with the story ...
... never otherwise heard . His Longinus he intended to accompany with some illustrations , and had selected his instances of the false sublime from the works of Blackmore . He resolved to try again the fortune of the stage , with the story ...
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... never in his whole life had once spoken to Smith ; his company being , as must be inferred , not accepted by those who attended to their characters . The charge was afterwards very diligently re- futed by Dr. Burton , of Eton , a man ...
... never in his whole life had once spoken to Smith ; his company being , as must be inferred , not accepted by those who attended to their characters . The charge was afterwards very diligently re- futed by Dr. Burton , of Eton , a man ...
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