The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... genius , and as patient of being excelled himself ( if any could excel him ) as industrious to excel others . ' Twere to be wished he had confined himself to a particular profession , who was capable of surpassing in any ; but in this ...
... genius , and as patient of being excelled himself ( if any could excel him ) as industrious to excel others . ' Twere to be wished he had confined himself to a particular profession , who was capable of surpassing in any ; but in this ...
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... genius for Latin lyric since the Augustan Age . His friend Mr. Philips's ode to Mr. St John ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) after the manner of Horace's lusory or amatorian odes , is certainly a masterpiece : but Mr. Smith's Pocockius is of ...
... genius for Latin lyric since the Augustan Age . His friend Mr. Philips's ode to Mr. St John ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) after the manner of Horace's lusory or amatorian odes , is certainly a masterpiece : but Mr. Smith's Pocockius is of ...
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... genius had begun . Such is the declamation of Oldisworth , written while his admiration was yet fresh , and his kindness warm ; and there- fore such as , without any criminal purpose of deceiving , shows a strong desire to make the most ...
... genius had begun . Such is the declamation of Oldisworth , written while his admiration was yet fresh , and his kindness warm ; and there- fore such as , without any criminal purpose of deceiving , shows a strong desire to make the most ...
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... genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him : he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at the instance of all the canons , the sentence declared five years before ...
... genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him : he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at the instance of all the canons , the sentence declared five years before ...
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... genius of that excellent poet who made this way of writing free of our nation , and being so little equal and proportioned to the renown of the prince on whom they were written ; such great actions and lives deserving to be the subject ...
... genius of that excellent poet who made this way of writing free of our nation , and being so little equal and proportioned to the renown of the prince on whom they were written ; such great actions and lives deserving to be the subject ...
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