The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... Family - Popularity of his preaching- His Work on ' The Improvement of the Mind ' - Death , and Burial at Bunhill Fields in Lon- don • • 449 AMBROSE PHILIPS . - 1675-1749 . A Native of Shropshire CONTENTS OF VOL . II . vii.
... Family - Popularity of his preaching- His Work on ' The Improvement of the Mind ' - Death , and Burial at Bunhill Fields in Lon- don • • 449 AMBROSE PHILIPS . - 1675-1749 . A Native of Shropshire CONTENTS OF VOL . II . vii.
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... mind vigorous and acute , and furnished with comic characters by the perusal of other poets , without much actual commerce with man- kind . The dialogue is one constant reciprocation of conceits , or clash of wit , in which nothing ...
... mind vigorous and acute , and furnished with comic characters by the perusal of other poets , without much actual commerce with man- kind . The dialogue is one constant reciprocation of conceits , or clash of wit , in which nothing ...
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... mind replete with images , and quick in combination.22 Of his miscellaneous poetry , I cannot say anything very favour- able . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when ...
... mind replete with images , and quick in combination.22 Of his miscellaneous poetry , I cannot say anything very favour- able . The powers of Congreve seem to desert him when he leaves the stage , as Antæus was no longer strong than when ...
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... The copy of it in the British Museum has the names of the authors in manuscript , including several noblemen , and the then unknown name of Captain Steele . should his dignity of mind be without its praise , BLACKMORE . 35.
... The copy of it in the British Museum has the names of the authors in manuscript , including several noblemen , and the then unknown name of Captain Steele . should his dignity of mind be without its praise , BLACKMORE . 35.
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With Critical Observations of Their Works Samuel Johnson. should his dignity of mind be without its praise , had he not paid the homage to greatness which he denied to genius , and degraded him- self by conferring that authority over the ...
With Critical Observations of Their Works Samuel Johnson. should his dignity of mind be without its praise , had he not paid the homage to greatness which he denied to genius , and degraded him- self by conferring that authority over the ...
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