The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... allowed , that he had been singled out by some great men to write a history , which it was for their interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design was dropped , though they ...
... allowed , that he had been singled out by some great men to write a history , which it was for their interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design was dropped , though they ...
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... allowed to any drama before ; and the author , as Mrs. Porter long afterwards related , wandered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and un- appeasable solicitude . When it was printed , notice was given that ...
... allowed to any drama before ; and the author , as Mrs. Porter long afterwards related , wandered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and un- appeasable solicitude . When it was printed , notice was given that ...
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... allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour , which , as Steele observes , is peculiar to himself , is so happily diffused as to give the grace of novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences . He never ...
... allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour , which , as Steele observes , is peculiar to himself , is so happily diffused as to give the grace of novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences . He never ...
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... allowed . He had a quarrel with the Earl of Rochester , which he has perhaps too ostentatiously related , as Rochester's surviving sister , the Lady Sandwich , is said to have told him with very sharp reproaches . When another Dutch war ...
... allowed . He had a quarrel with the Earl of Rochester , which he has perhaps too ostentatiously related , as Rochester's surviving sister , the Lady Sandwich , is said to have told him with very sharp reproaches . When another Dutch war ...
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... allowed its author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon ...
... allowed its author the privilege of the house . Few plays have ever been so beneficial to the writer ; for it procured him the patronage of Halifax , who immediately made him one of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon ...
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