The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... friends ; and great assistance has been given me by mr . Spence's Collections , of which I consider the commu- nication as a favour worthy of public acknowledgment . * * They were communicated by their possessor , the duke of Newcastle ...
... friends ; and great assistance has been given me by mr . Spence's Collections , of which I consider the commu- nication as a favour worthy of public acknowledgment . * * They were communicated by their possessor , the duke of Newcastle ...
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... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known ...
... friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is dis- tinctly known ...
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... friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation ; yet , even in this , not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to ...
... friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no favourable representation ; yet , even in this , not much wrong can be discovered . How far he complied with the men in power , is to ...
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... friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narra- tive seems to ... friends among the abettors of usurpa- tion . A doctor of physic , however , he was made , at Oxford , in December ...
... friend , but by his friend's permission . Of the verses on Oliver's death , in which Wood's narra- tive seems to ... friends among the abettors of usurpa- tion . A doctor of physic , however , he was made , at Oxford , in December ...
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... friends . The man , who has his God , no aid can lack ; And we , who bid him go , will bring him back . Yet , amidst his negligence , he sometimes attempted an improved and scientific versification ; of which it will be best to give his ...
... friends . The man , who has his God , no aid can lack ; And we , who bid him go , will bring him back . Yet , amidst his negligence , he sometimes attempted an improved and scientific versification ; of which it will be best to give his ...
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