The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or pas- sion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smart- ness is ...
... endeavoured , he seldom failed of performing . His scenes exhibit not much of humour , imagery , or pas- sion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smart- ness is ...
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... endeavoured to gain at least one friend , and propitiated Congreve by higher praise of his Mourning Bride than it has obtained from any other critic . The same year he published a satire on wit ; a proclama- tion of defiance which ...
... endeavoured to gain at least one friend , and propitiated Congreve by higher praise of his Mourning Bride than it has obtained from any other critic . The same year he published a satire on wit ; a proclama- tion of defiance which ...
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... endeavoured to diffuse the art of healing ; for there is scarcely any distemper , of dreadful name , which he has not taught the reader how to oppose . He has written on the smallpox , with a vehement invective against inoculation ; on ...
... endeavoured to diffuse the art of healing ; for there is scarcely any distemper , of dreadful name , which he has not taught the reader how to oppose . He has written on the smallpox , with a vehement invective against inoculation ; on ...
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... endeavouring to depreciate and degrade him , he either despised or defied them , wrote on as he had written before , and never turned aside to quiet them by civility , or repress them by confutation . He depended with great security on ...
... endeavouring to depreciate and degrade him , he either despised or defied them , wrote on as he had written before , and never turned aside to quiet them by civility , or repress them by confutation . He depended with great security on ...
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... endeavoured to entertain the town with Three Hours after Marriage ; a comedy written , as there is sufficient reason for believing , by the joint assist- ance of Pope and Arbuthnot . One purpose of it was to bring into contempt dr ...
... endeavoured to entertain the town with Three Hours after Marriage ; a comedy written , as there is sufficient reason for believing , by the joint assist- ance of Pope and Arbuthnot . One purpose of it was to bring into contempt dr ...
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