The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... parties or rivals for fame , but as architects upon one and the same plan , the Art of Poetry ; according to which he judged , approved , and blamed , without flattery or detraction . If he did not always commend the compositions of ...
... parties or rivals for fame , but as architects upon one and the same plan , the Art of Poetry ; according to which he judged , approved , and blamed , without flattery or detraction . If he did not always commend the compositions of ...
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... party , and was supported by the liberality of those who de- lighted in his conversation . There was once a design hinted at by Oldisworth , to have made him useful . One evening , as he was sitting with a friend at a tavern , he was ...
... party , and was supported by the liberality of those who de- lighted in his conversation . There was once a design hinted at by Oldisworth , to have made him useful . One evening , as he was sitting with a friend at a tavern , he was ...
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... parties , had a prologue and epilogue from the first wits on either side . But learning and nature will now and then take different courses . His play pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded ...
... parties , had a prologue and epilogue from the first wits on either side . But learning and nature will now and then take different courses . His play pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded ...
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... party with Aldrich and Atterbury , too studious of truth to leave them burthened with a false charge . The testimonies which he has collected , have convinced mankind that either Smith or Ducket were guilty of wilful and malicious ...
... party with Aldrich and Atterbury , too studious of truth to leave them burthened with a false charge . The testimonies which he has collected , have convinced mankind that either Smith or Ducket were guilty of wilful and malicious ...
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... party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart . I honoured him , and he endured me . He had mingled with the gay world , without exemption from its vices or its follies , but had never neglected the culti- vation of his mind ...
... party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart . I honoured him , and he endured me . He had mingled with the gay world , without exemption from its vices or its follies , but had never neglected the culti- vation of his mind ...
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