The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... elegant and instructive dialogue , in which we are told , by Prior , that the principal cha- racter is meant to represent the Duke of Dorset . This work seems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . Secret Love ...
... elegant and instructive dialogue , in which we are told , by Prior , that the principal cha- racter is meant to represent the Duke of Dorset . This work seems to have given Addison a model for his Dialogues upon Medals . Secret Love ...
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... elegant animadversions , justice requires that something of Settle's should be exhibited . The fol lowing observations are therefore extracted from a quarto pamphlet of ninety - five pages : Fate after him below with pain did move , And ...
... elegant animadversions , justice requires that something of Settle's should be exhibited . The fol lowing observations are therefore extracted from a quarto pamphlet of ninety - five pages : Fate after him below with pain did move , And ...
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... elegant address , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his usual com- plaint of hard treatment and unreasonable censure . Amboyna ( 1673 ) is a tissue of mingled dialogue in verse and prose , and was perhaps ...
... elegant address , to Sir Charles Sedley ; in which he finds an opportunity for his usual com- plaint of hard treatment and unreasonable censure . Amboyna ( 1673 ) is a tissue of mingled dialogue in verse and prose , and was perhaps ...
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... elegant character of Charles , and a pleasing ac count of his latter life . When this was first brought upon the stage * news that the Duke of Monmouth had landed was told in the theatre ; upon which the company departed , and Arthur ...
... elegant character of Charles , and a pleasing ac count of his latter life . When this was first brought upon the stage * news that the Duke of Monmouth had landed was told in the theatre ; upon which the company departed , and Arthur ...
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... elegant and gross ; and from a nice distinction of these different parts arises a great part of the beauty of style . But , if we except a few minds , the favourites of nature , to whom their own original rectitude was in the place of ...
... elegant and gross ; and from a nice distinction of these different parts arises a great part of the beauty of style . But , if we except a few minds , the favourites of nature , to whom their own original rectitude was in the place of ...
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