The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... 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 obtained by a boy ...
... 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 obtained by a boy ...
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... manners were polite and his conversation pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he con- tributed nothing to ' The Spectator , ' and only one paper to ' The Tatler , ' though published by men with whom he ...
... manners were polite and his conversation pleasing . He seems not to have taken much pleasure in writing , as he con- tributed nothing to ' The Spectator , ' and only one paper to ' The Tatler , ' though published by men with whom he ...
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... I should just serve any mem- ber of the French Institute in the same manner that wished to be introduced to me . - CHARLES LAMB . ( Letters , ' p . 186. ) In his retirement he may be supposed to have applied 22 CONGREVE .
... I should just serve any mem- ber of the French Institute in the same manner that wished to be introduced to me . - CHARLES LAMB . ( Letters , ' p . 186. ) In his retirement he may be supposed to have applied 22 CONGREVE .
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... manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my memory is , that his characters are commonly fictitious and artificial , with very little of ...
... manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my memory is , that his characters are commonly fictitious and artificial , with very little of ...
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... manner and spirit , that he ought by all means to be excepted out of the number of those who have brought Pindar into discredit by pretending to resemble him . - GILBERT WEST : Preface to Pindar . That Pindar's odes were regular ...
... manner and spirit , that he ought by all means to be excepted out of the number of those who have brought Pindar into discredit by pretending to resemble him . - GILBERT WEST : Preface to Pindar . That Pindar's odes were regular ...
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