The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Peter Hill, 1815 |
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... reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to guess ; had he thought himself injured , he knew how to complain . In the Trinity College , where he was admitted to a Bachelor's De ...
... reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is vain to guess ; had he thought himself injured , he knew how to complain . In the Trinity College , where he was admitted to a Bachelor's De ...
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... reason I can guess , why it seemed a wasp . But , because we will allow him all we can to help out , let it be a phenix sea - wasp , and the rari- ty of such an animal may do much towards heighten- ing the fancy . IT had been much more ...
... reason I can guess , why it seemed a wasp . But , because we will allow him all we can to help out , let it be a phenix sea - wasp , and the rari- ty of such an animal may do much towards heighten- ing the fancy . IT had been much more ...
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... reason which he gives for printing what was never acted cannot be overpassed : I was induced to it in my own defence , many hundred copies of it being dispersed abroad without my knowledge or con- sent ; and every one gathering new ...
... reason which he gives for printing what was never acted cannot be overpassed : I was induced to it in my own defence , many hundred copies of it being dispersed abroad without my knowledge or con- sent ; and every one gathering new ...
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... reason to be ashamed . ' THIS play appeared in 1694. It is said to have been unsuccessful . The catastrophe , proceeding merely from a change of mind , is confessed by the author to be defective . Thus he began and ended his dramatick ...
... reason to be ashamed . ' THIS play appeared in 1694. It is said to have been unsuccessful . The catastrophe , proceeding merely from a change of mind , is confessed by the author to be defective . Thus he began and ended his dramatick ...
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... reason to suspect . He is always angry at some past , or afraid of some future censure ; but he lessens the smart of his wounds by the balm of his own approbation , and endeavours to repel the shafts of criticism by opposing a shield of ...
... reason to suspect . He is always angry at some past , or afraid of some future censure ; but he lessens the smart of his wounds by the balm of his own approbation , and endeavours to repel the shafts of criticism by opposing a shield of ...
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