The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen anything like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen anything like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
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... kind was so well known and 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 ...
... kind was so well known and 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 ...
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... kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out the plan of a tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I ...
... kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out the plan of a tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I ...
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... kind seldom live long , when interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could per- form in opposition to Learning , on a question which ...
... kind seldom live long , when interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could per- form in opposition to Learning , on a question which ...
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... kind , and that each has its distinct and characteristical excellence . My business is only with his poems . He considered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that as he was imitated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but ...
... kind , and that each has its distinct and characteristical excellence . My business is only with his poems . He considered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that as he was imitated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but ...
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