The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues , except the genc- VOL . II . B T ral ...
... appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues , except the genc- VOL . II . B T ral ...
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... appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and pos- sessed that copiousness of ... appearing to have done every thing by chance . The Old Bachelor was written for amusement , in the languor of convalescence ...
... appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and pos- sessed that copiousness of ... appearing to have done every thing by chance . The Old Bachelor was written for amusement , in the languor of convalescence ...
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... appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and pos- sessed that copiousness of ... appearing to have done every thing by chance . The Old Bachelor was written for amusement , in the languor of convalescence ...
... appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and pos- sessed that copiousness of ... appearing to have done every thing by chance . The Old Bachelor was written for amusement , in the languor of convalescence ...
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... has , however , the appearance of more circumspection ; it wants neither harmony of nuin- bers , accuracy of thought , nor elegance of diction ; it has either been written with great care , or , what 26 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... has , however , the appearance of more circumspection ; it wants neither harmony of nuin- bers , accuracy of thought , nor elegance of diction ; it has either been written with great care , or , what 26 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... appeared more than in his last moments : He had a conscious Satisfaction ( no doubt ) in acting right , in feeling himself honest , true , & unpretending to more than was his own . So he dyed , as he lived , with that secret , yet ...
... appeared more than in his last moments : He had a conscious Satisfaction ( no doubt ) in acting right , in feeling himself honest , true , & unpretending to more than was his own . So he dyed , as he lived , with that secret , yet ...
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