The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... never knew anybody that had so much wit as Congreve . - LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU : Spence by Singer , p . 232 . 16 Voltaire has been charmingly absurd . He who laughed at Congreve for despising the rank of author and affecting the ...
... never knew anybody that had so much wit as Congreve . - LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU : Spence by Singer , p . 232 . 16 Voltaire has been charmingly absurd . He who laughed at Congreve for despising the rank of author and affecting the ...
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... never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations . His comedies have therefore , in some degree , the operation of tragedies ; they surprise rather than divert , and raise admiration oftener than ...
... never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations . His comedies have therefore , in some degree , the operation of tragedies ; they surprise rather than divert , and raise admiration oftener than ...
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... never kissed their governor's hands , nor made the least court to the committee that sits in Covent - Garden [ Will's Coffee- house ] ; mine is , therefore , not so much as a permission - poem , but a pure , downright interloper . Those ...
... never kissed their governor's hands , nor made the least court to the committee that sits in Covent - Garden [ Will's Coffee- house ] ; mine is , therefore , not so much as a permission - poem , but a pure , downright interloper . Those ...
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... never mentioned , and was never seen by me till I borrowed it for the present occasion . Jacob says , " it is corrected and revised for another impression ; " but the labour of revision was thrown away . From this time he turned some of ...
... never mentioned , and was never seen by me till I borrowed it for the present occasion . Jacob says , " it is corrected and revised for another impression ; " but the labour of revision was thrown away . From this time he turned some of ...
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... never obtained the bequest , the nephew must have attained twenty - one , and thus succeeded in saving the public from many folio and quarto publications of bad verse . There is a fine old mezzotinto portrait of Blackmore by Williams ...
... never obtained the bequest , the nephew must have attained twenty - one , and thus succeeded in saving the public from many folio and quarto publications of bad verse . There is a fine old mezzotinto portrait of Blackmore by Williams ...
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