The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... remarks on Rymer have been somewhere print- ed before . The former edition I have not seen . This was transcribed for the press from his own manuscript . As this undertaking was occasional and unforseen , I must be supposed to have ...
... remarks on Rymer have been somewhere print- ed before . The former edition I have not seen . This was transcribed for the press from his own manuscript . As this undertaking was occasional and unforseen , I must be supposed to have ...
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... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of dr . Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
... remarks and memorials which I have been able to add to the narrative of dr . Sprat ; who , writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many ...
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... remarks are not easily understood without ex- amples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently ...
... remarks are not easily understood without ex- amples ; and I have therefore collected instances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently ...
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... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke : In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like ...
... remarks , that some falsehoods are continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke : In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like ...
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... remarks , which his 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 ...
... remarks , which his 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 ...
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