The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... lines : Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother - university ; Thebes did his rude , unknowing ... line , An horrid stillness first invades the ear , And in that silence we a tempest fear →→→ for which he was ...
... lines : Oxford to him a dearer name shall be Than his own mother - university ; Thebes did his rude , unknowing ... line , An horrid stillness first invades the ear , And in that silence we a tempest fear →→→ for which he was ...
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... lines ; a measure which he had learned from the Gondibert of Davenant , and which he then thought the most majestick that the English language affords . Of this stanza he mentions the incumbrances , increas- ed as they were by the ...
... lines ; a measure which he had learned from the Gondibert of Davenant , and which he then thought the most majestick that the English language affords . Of this stanza he mentions the incumbrances , increas- ed as they were by the ...
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... lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' HERE is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of ...
... lines aboard some smack in a storm , and , being sea - sick , spewed up a good lump of clotted nonsense at once . ' HERE is perhaps a sufficient specimen ; but as the pamphlet , though Dryden's , has never been thought worthy of ...
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... lines a mess of rhyming nonsense yield , A senseless tale , with flattering fustian fill'd . No grain of sense does in one line appear , Thy words big bulks of boisterous bombast bear . With noise they move , and from players ' mouths ...
... lines a mess of rhyming nonsense yield , A senseless tale , with flattering fustian fill'd . No grain of sense does in one line appear , Thy words big bulks of boisterous bombast bear . With noise they move , and from players ' mouths ...
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... lines , if he can shew me any sense of thought in , or any thing but bombast and noise , he shall make me believe every word in his observations on Morocco sense , In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : Jon I'll travel then to ...
... lines , if he can shew me any sense of thought in , or any thing but bombast and noise , he shall make me believe every word in his observations on Morocco sense , In the Empress of Morocco were these lines : Jon I'll travel then to ...
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