The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... poetical elements with the same concern with which curious men are affected at the sight of the most entertaining remains and ruins of an antique figure or building . Those fragments of the learned , which some men have been so proud of ...
... poetical elements with the same concern with which curious men are affected at the sight of the most entertaining remains and ruins of an antique figure or building . Those fragments of the learned , which some men have been so proud of ...
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... poetical compositions ; and being conscious of his powers , when he left the university , he enlisted himself among the Wits . He was the familiar friend of Otway ; and was engaged , among other popular names , in the translations of ...
... poetical compositions ; and being conscious of his powers , when he left the university , he enlisted himself among the Wits . He was the familiar friend of Otway ; and was engaged , among other popular names , in the translations of ...
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... poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a poetical interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight in the quiet of Mountown . In ...
... poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a poetical interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight in the quiet of Mountown . In ...
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... poetical merit is the claim to attention ; and the account which is here to be expected may properly be proportioned not to his influence in the state , but to his rank among the writers of verse . Charles Montague was born April 16 ...
... poetical merit is the claim to attention ; and the account which is here to be expected may properly be proportioned not to his influence in the state , but to his rank among the writers of verse . Charles Montague was born April 16 ...
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... poetical ardour , and something of general delecta- tion ; and therefore , since it has been no longer supported by accidental and intrinsick popularity , it has been scarcely able to support itself . ROWE . NICHOLAS ROWE was born at ...
... poetical ardour , and something of general delecta- tion ; and therefore , since it has been no longer supported by accidental and intrinsick popularity , it has been scarcely able to support itself . ROWE . NICHOLAS ROWE was born at ...
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