The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... honour , 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 employ- ment that ...
... honour , 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 employ- ment that ...
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... 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 nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his ...
... 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 nothing is new . In another year ( 1695 ) his ...
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... honoured by the adverse party , might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honour which is due to his excellent parts , and that en- tire affection which I bear him ) , the other by myself ...
... honoured by the adverse party , might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honour which is due to his excellent parts , and that en- tire affection which I bear him ) , the other by myself ...
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... honour . " - Walpole's Reminiscences . The charms of his [ Congreve's ] conversation must have been very powerful , since nothing could console Henrietta Duchess of Marlborough for the loss of his company , so much as an au- tomaton ...
... honour . " - Walpole's Reminiscences . The charms of his [ Congreve's ] conversation must have been very powerful , since nothing could console Henrietta Duchess of Marlborough for the loss of his company , so much as an au- tomaton ...
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... honour of St. Cecilia's Day , 1701. By Mr. Congreve , London : Tonson . 1703 , fol . 25 I have read my friend Congreve's verses to Lord Cobham , which end with a vile and false moral , and I remember is not in Horace to Tibullus , which ...
... honour of St. Cecilia's Day , 1701. By Mr. Congreve , London : Tonson . 1703 , fol . 25 I have read my friend Congreve's verses to Lord Cobham , which end with a vile and false moral , and I remember is not in Horace to Tibullus , which ...
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