The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard , by an elaborato display of his Barnesii Anacreontem own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has , in 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard , by an elaborato display of his Barnesii Anacreontem own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has , in 10 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has , in different men , produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. own qualifications . The desire of pleasing has , in different men , produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the ...
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... prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing 36 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... prefaces and his notes on the Davideis supply , were at that time accessions to English literature , and shew such skill as raises our wish for more examples . The lines from Jersey are a very curious and pleasing 36 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against reason are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
... pleasing specimen of the familiar descending to the burlesque . His two metrical disquisitions for and against reason are no mean specimens of metaphysical poetry . The stanzas against knowledge produce little conviction . In those ...
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... pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian theatre , in which all kinds of verse are ...
... pleasing fashion , and they that could do nothing else could write like Pindar . The rights of antiquity were invaded , and disorder tried to break into the Latin : a poem on the Sheldonian theatre , in which all kinds of verse are ...
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