The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called Incognita , or , love and duty reconciled : it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly ...
... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called Incognita , or , love and duty reconciled : it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly ...
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... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called Incognita , or , love and duty reconciled : it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly ...
... pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called Incognita , or , love and duty reconciled : it is praised by the biographers , who quote some part of the preface , that is indeed , for such a time of life , uncommonly ...
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... pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper to the Tatler , though published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of ...
... pleasure in writing , as he contributed nothing to the Spectator , and only one paper to the Tatler , though published by men with whom he might be supposed willing to associate ; and though he lived many years after the publication of ...
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... pleasure , and , as he was not deterred by censure , he was not satiated with praise . He deviated , however , sometimes into other tracks of literature , and condescended to entertain his readers with plain prose . When the Spectator ...
... pleasure , and , as he was not deterred by censure , he was not satiated with praise . He deviated , however , sometimes into other tracks of literature , and condescended to entertain his readers with plain prose . When the Spectator ...
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... pleasure in commending the beauties , than ex- posing the blemishes , of a laudable writing : like Horace , in a long work he can bear some deformities , and justly lay them on the imperfection of human nature , which is incapable of ...
... pleasure in commending the beauties , than ex- posing the blemishes , of a laudable writing : like Horace , in a long work he can bear some deformities , and justly lay them on the imperfection of human nature , which is incapable of ...
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