The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... death .- " Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile , Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof , By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
... death .- " Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile , Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof , By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
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... death of queen Mary in lines like these : The rocks are cleft , and new - descending rills Furrow the brows of all th ' impending hills . The water - gods to floods their rivulets turn , And each , with streaming eyes , supplies his ...
... death of queen Mary in lines like these : The rocks are cleft , and new - descending rills Furrow the brows of all th ' impending hills . The water - gods to floods their rivulets turn , And each , with streaming eyes , supplies his ...
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... death by mr.White of Nayland in Essex , the minister who attended his death - bed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits , whom he ...
... death by mr.White of Nayland in Essex , the minister who attended his death - bed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits , whom he ...
Pàgina 34
... ex- cellent versifier and a good poet . Whatever I have said of Fenton is confirmed by Pope in a letter , by which he communicated to Broome an ac- count of his death : - ΤΟ The Revd . Mr. BROOME . At PULHAM , 34 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... ex- cellent versifier and a good poet . Whatever I have said of Fenton is confirmed by Pope in a letter , by which he communicated to Broome an ac- count of his death : - ΤΟ The Revd . Mr. BROOME . At PULHAM , 34 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pàgina 37
... death , without any known abatement on either part . Gay was the general favourite of the whole association of wits ; but they regarded him as a play - fellow rather than a partner , and treated him with more fondness than respect ...
... death , without any known abatement on either part . Gay was the general favourite of the whole association of wits ; but they regarded him as a play - fellow rather than a partner , and treated him with more fondness than respect ...
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