The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... thought a rigorous and steady moralist , having told a pretty lie to Louis XIV . , continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well ...
... thought a rigorous and steady moralist , having told a pretty lie to Louis XIV . , continued it afterwards by false dates ; thinking himself obliged in honour , says his admirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well ...
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... thought , was received with so little favour , that , being in a high degree offended and disgusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he ...
... thought , was received with so little favour , that , being in a high degree offended and disgusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he ...
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... thought he could no longer jog ; But Arthur was a level ; Job's a bog . DRYDEN : Prologue to the Pilgrim . 12 Some of these poets , to excuse their guilt , allege for themselves , that the degeneracy of the age makes their lewd way of ...
... thought he could no longer jog ; But Arthur was a level ; Job's a bog . DRYDEN : Prologue to the Pilgrim . 12 Some of these poets , to excuse their guilt , allege for themselves , that the degeneracy of the age makes their lewd way of ...
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... thought will appear a new one , to the great delight and wonder of the hearer . What we call genius results from this particular happy complexion in the first formation of the person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but ...
... thought will appear a new one , to the great delight and wonder of the hearer . What we call genius results from this particular happy complexion in the first formation of the person that enjoys it , and is Nature's gift , but ...
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... thought them good , and did not seek for bet- త ter . His works may be read a long time without the occurrence of a single line that stands prominent from the rest . ! C 1 The poem on ' Creation ' has , however , the appearance of more ...
... thought them good , and did not seek for bet- త ter . His works may be read a long time without the occurrence of a single line that stands prominent from the rest . ! C 1 The poem on ' Creation ' has , however , the appearance of more ...
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