The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... verses in the Oxford books , which he could not help setting his name to , several of his com- positions came abroad under other names , which his own singular modesty , and faithful silence , strove in vain to conceal . The Enconia and ...
... verses in the Oxford books , which he could not help setting his name to , several of his com- positions came abroad under other names , which his own singular modesty , and faithful silence , strove in vain to conceal . The Enconia and ...
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... Verses as smooth and soft as cream , In which there was neither depth nor stream . And therefore , though his want of complaisance for some men's overbearing vanity made him ene- mies , yet the better part of mankind were obliged by the ...
... Verses as smooth and soft as cream , In which there was neither depth nor stream . And therefore , though his want of complaisance for some men's overbearing vanity made him ene- mies , yet the better part of mankind were obliged by the ...
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... verses , both as falling " so infinitely below the full and sublime genius of that excellent poet who made this way of writing free of our nation , " and being " so little equal and proportioned to the renown of a prince on whom they ...
... verses , both as falling " so infinitely below the full and sublime genius of that excellent poet who made this way of writing free of our nation , " and being " so little equal and proportioned to the renown of a prince on whom they ...
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... verses on the death of King Charles made such an impression on the Earl of Dorset , that he was invited to town , and introduced by that universal patron to the other wits . In 1687 , he joined with Prior in the City Mouse and the Coun ...
... verses on the death of King Charles made such an impression on the Earl of Dorset , that he was invited to town , and introduced by that universal patron to the other wits . In 1687 , he joined with Prior in the City Mouse and the Coun ...
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... verses to Pope , was borrowed from Secundus ; but lately searching for the passage which I had formerly read , I could not find it . The Night - piece on Death is indirectly preferred by Goldsmith to Gray's Church - yard ; but , in my ...
... verses to Pope , was borrowed from Secundus ; but lately searching for the passage which I had formerly read , I could not find it . The Night - piece on Death is indirectly preferred by Goldsmith to Gray's Church - yard ; but , in my ...
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