The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as to positive powers . No man scruples to say that dark- ness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has kil- led the plants . Death is also privation ; yet who has ...
... never been refused the right of ascribing effects or agency to them as to positive powers . No man scruples to say that dark- ness hinders him from his work ; or that cold has kil- led the plants . Death is also privation ; yet who has ...
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... never seen a man , is in this brought acquainted with a man that had never seen a woman . ABOUT this time , in 1673 , Dryden seems to have had his quiet much disturbed by the success of the Empress of Morocco , a tragedy written in ...
... never seen a man , is in this brought acquainted with a man that had never seen a woman . ABOUT this time , in 1673 , Dryden seems to have had his quiet much disturbed by the success of the Empress of Morocco , a tragedy written in ...
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... never fashion into wit or English . His style is boisterous and rough hewn , his rhyme incorrigibly lewd , and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill - sounding . The little talent which he has , is fancy . He sometimes labours with a ...
... never fashion into wit or English . His style is boisterous and rough hewn , his rhyme incorrigibly lewd , and his numbers perpetually harsh and ill - sounding . The little talent which he has , is fancy . He sometimes labours with a ...
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... never been thought worthy of republication , and is not easily to be found , it may gratify curiosity to quote it more largely : Whene'er she bleeds , He no severer a damnation needs , That dares pronounce the sentence of her death ...
... never been thought worthy of republication , and is not easily to be found , it may gratify curiosity to quote it more largely : Whene'er she bleeds , He no severer a damnation needs , That dares pronounce the sentence of her death ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. podge does he make here ! Never was Dutch grout such clogging ... never any one that pretended to write sense had the impudence before to put such stuff as this into the mouths of ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. podge does he make here ! Never was Dutch grout such clogging ... never any one that pretended to write sense had the impudence before to put such stuff as this into the mouths of ...
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