The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... Queen Caroline - Loses his Pension - Fruitless endeav- ours of Pope and others to serve him - His Irregular Life - Retires to Swansea -- Death in a Prison at Bristol - Burial in the Churchyard of St. Peter's , Bristol - Works and ...
... Queen Caroline - Loses his Pension - Fruitless endeav- ours of Pope and others to serve him - His Irregular Life - Retires to Swansea -- Death in a Prison at Bristol - Burial in the Churchyard of St. Peter's , Bristol - Works and ...
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... Queen Anne - His Two Visits to England - Publishes ' Gulliver's Travels - Supposed to have been married to Stella - Stella and Vanessa - His Services to Ireland - Disappointments and Idiotcy - Death , and Burial in St. Patrick's ...
... Queen Anne - His Two Visits to England - Publishes ' Gulliver's Travels - Supposed to have been married to Stella - Stella and Vanessa - His Services to Ireland - Disappointments and Idiotcy - Death , and Burial in St. Patrick's ...
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... Queen Mary conferred upon both those plays the honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet ...
... Queen Mary conferred upon both those plays the honour of her presence ; and when she died , soon after , Congreve testified his gratitude by a despicable effusion of elegiac pastoral ; a composition in which all is unnatural , and yet ...
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... Queen Mary in lines like these : 23 Johnson said [ 16th Oct. 1769 ] that the description of the temple in ' The Mourning Bride ' was the finest poetical passage he had ever read ; he recollected none in Shakespeare equal to it . " But ...
... Queen Mary in lines like these : 23 Johnson said [ 16th Oct. 1769 ] that the description of the temple in ' The Mourning Bride ' was the finest poetical passage he had ever read ; he recollected none in Shakespeare equal to it . " But ...
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... Queen of Love , all bath'd in flowing tears ; See how she wrings her hands and beats her breast , And tears her useless girdle from her waist : Hear the sad murmurs of her sighing doves ! For grief they sigh , forgetful of their loves ...
... Queen of Love , all bath'd in flowing tears ; See how she wrings her hands and beats her breast , And tears her useless girdle from her waist : Hear the sad murmurs of her sighing doves ! For grief they sigh , forgetful of their loves ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1864 |
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