The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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Pàgina 1
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
... written by Dr. Sprat , an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration ...
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... written , but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical compositions , " the tragical history of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years ...
... written , but printed in his thirteenth year ; containing , with other poetical compositions , " the tragical history of Pyramus and Thisbe , " written when he was ten years old ; and " Constantia and Philetus , " written two years ...
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... written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two ...
... written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two ...
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... written about that time on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making ...
... written about that time on the choice of a laureat ; a mode of satire , by which , since it was first introduced by Suckling , perhaps every generation of poets has been teazed . Savoy - missing Cowley came into the court , Making ...
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... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was ... written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court ...
... writing when the feuds of the civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was ... written with narrow views , and , instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court ...
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