The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... written by dr . Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of lite- rature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
... written by dr . Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of lite- rature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
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... written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school , he produced a comedy call- ed " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at ...
... written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years after . While he was yet at school , he produced a comedy call- ed " Love's Riddle , " though it was not published till he had been some time at ...
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... written like those of other men , whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the ...
... written like those of other men , whose minds are more on things than words , contribute no otherwise to his reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the ...
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... written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making ...
... written about that time , on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making ...
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... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was ... written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court ...
... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was ... written with nar- row views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court ...
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