The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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... nature , nor manners , " 301 - Dies June 7 , 1742 , at Stowe , 301 . WILLIAM SOMERVILE , 1692-1742 4.0 . p . 301 Born at Edston in Warwickshire , 301 - Educated at Winchester and New College , 301- " Writes very well for a Gentleman ...
... nature , nor manners , " 301 - Dies June 7 , 1742 , at Stowe , 301 . WILLIAM SOMERVILE , 1692-1742 4.0 . p . 301 Born at Edston in Warwickshire , 301 - Educated at Winchester and New College , 301- " Writes very well for a Gentleman ...
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Samuel Johnson. made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules ...
Samuel Johnson. made by nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says , such " an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules ...
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... natural sources in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has ...
... natural sources in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has ...
Pàgina 14
... Nature's well - set clock in pieces took ; On all the springs and smallest wheels did look ! Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . - COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but ...
... Nature's well - set clock in pieces took ; On all the springs and smallest wheels did look ! Of life and motion , and with equal art Made up the whole again of every part . - COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but ...
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... natures fall : Then from those wombs of stars , the Bride's bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies , And ... Nature's hand ; And I must needs , I'm sure , a loser be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That ...
... natures fall : Then from those wombs of stars , the Bride's bright eyes , At every glance a constellation flies , And ... Nature's hand ; And I must needs , I'm sure , a loser be , To change thee as thou'rt there , for very thee . That ...
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