The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him in ...
... says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him in ...
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... says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him in ...
... says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him in ...
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... say any thing very favourable . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when he could touch the ground . It cannot be ob- served without wonder , that a mind , so vigorous ...
... say any thing very favourable . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when he could touch the ground . It cannot be ob- served without wonder , that a mind , so vigorous ...
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... says , of dr . Sydenham , what authors he should read , and was directed by Sydenham to Don Quixote ; " which , " said he , " is a very good book ; I read it still . " The perverseness of mankind makes it often mischievous in men of ...
... says , of dr . Sydenham , what authors he should read , and was directed by Sydenham to Don Quixote ; " which , " said he , " is a very good book ; I read it still . " The perverseness of mankind makes it often mischievous in men of ...
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... says , " but little poetry throughout his whole life ; and , for fifteen years be- fore , had not written a hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from ...
... says , " but little poetry throughout his whole life ; and , for fifteen years be- fore , had not written a hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from ...
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