The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it appa- rently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be ...
... common life , of real manners , and daily incidents , it appa- rently presupposes a familiar knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be ...
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... common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is ...
... common . Dryden calculated nativities ; both Cromwell and King William had their lucky days ; and Shaftesbury himself , though he had no religion , was said to regard predictions . The Sailor is not accounted very natural , but he is ...
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... common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puri- tans had raised a violent clamour against the drama ...
... common limits of nature than the plays of Congreve . About this time began the long - continued controversy between Collier and the poets . In the reign of Charles the First the Puri- tans had raised a violent clamour against the drama ...
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... Common again . - Berkeley's Literary Relics , 8vo . , 1789 , p . 378 . 18 He was very handsome . The best portrait of him is that among the Kit Kat series pre- sented to Jacob Tonson , and now at Bayfordbury , Herts . 19 The pall ...
... Common again . - Berkeley's Literary Relics , 8vo . , 1789 , p . 378 . 18 He was very handsome . The best portrait of him is that among the Kit Kat series pre- sented to Jacob Tonson , and now at Bayfordbury , Herts . 19 The pall ...
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... common . In his verses on Lady Gethin , the latter part is an imitation of Dryden's ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and Doris , that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , " has indeed some lively stanzas , but the expression might be ...
... common . In his verses on Lady Gethin , the latter part is an imitation of Dryden's ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and Doris , that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , " has indeed some lively stanzas , but the expression might be ...
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