The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... attention and inquiry , have gleaned many particulars , which would have diversified and enlivened my biography . These omissions , which it is now useless to lament , have been often supplied by the kindness of mr . Steevens and other ...
... attention and inquiry , have gleaned many particulars , which would have diversified and enlivened my biography . These omissions , which it is now useless to lament , have been often supplied by the kindness of mr . Steevens and other ...
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... attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed with a dedication in verse to dr . Comber , master of the college ; but , having neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a ...
... attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed with a dedication in verse to dr . Comber , master of the college ; but , having neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a ...
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... attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is , that , having followed the royal family through all their distresses , " he should chuse the ...
... attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how unlikely it is , that , having followed the royal family through all their distresses , " he should chuse the ...
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... attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiosity ...
... attention be often interested in any thing that befalls them . To the subject , thus originally indisposed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiosity ...
Pàgina 49
... attention : He took for skin a cloud most soft and bright , That e'er the mid - day sun pierc'd through with light ; Upon his cheeks a lively blush he spread , Wash'd from the morning beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring ...
... attention : He took for skin a cloud most soft and bright , That e'er the mid - day sun pierc'd through with light ; Upon his cheeks a lively blush he spread , Wash'd from the morning beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flatt'ring ...
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