The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... knowledge or con- sent ; and every one gathering new faults , it became at length a libel against me . ' These copies , as they gathered faults , were apparently manuscript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred ...
... knowledge or con- sent ; and every one gathering new faults , it became at length a libel against me . ' These copies , as they gathered faults , were apparently manuscript ; and he lived in an age very unlike ours , if many hundred ...
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... knowledge of poetical transactions * THE same year he published The Medal , of which the subject is a medal struck on Lord Shaftesbury's escape from a prosecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners . In both poems he ...
... knowledge of poetical transactions * THE same year he published The Medal , of which the subject is a medal struck on Lord Shaftesbury's escape from a prosecution , by the ignoramus of a grand jury of Londoners . In both poems he ...
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... knowledge they contain is disgraced by the garb in which it is exhibited . One great source of pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is he that wore as many cow - hides upon his shield as would ...
... knowledge they contain is disgraced by the garb in which it is exhibited . One great source of pleasure is to call Dryden little Bayes . Ajax , who happens to be mentioned , is he that wore as many cow - hides upon his shield as would ...
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... knowledge than he was communicative of it ; but then his communication was by no means pedan- tick , or imposed upon the conversation , but just such and went so far , as , by the natural turn of the con- versation in which he was ...
... knowledge than he was communicative of it ; but then his communication was by no means pedan- tick , or imposed upon the conversation , but just such and went so far , as , by the natural turn of the con- versation in which he was ...
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... knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestick manners of a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly considered as the fa- ther ...
... knowledge which I have been able to collect concerning the private life and domestick manners of a man whom every English generation must mention with reverence as a critick and a poet . DRYDEN may be properly considered as the fa- ther ...
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