The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... performances , that there arose no small contention between the representative electors of Trinity College in Cambridge and Christ Church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the electors of ...
... performances , that there arose no small contention between the representative electors of Trinity College in Cambridge and Christ Church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the electors of ...
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... performance . The praise is often indistinct , and the sentences are loaded with words of more pomp than use . There is little however that can be contra- dicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . Edmund Neal , known by the ...
... performance . The praise is often indistinct , and the sentences are loaded with words of more pomp than use . There is little however that can be contra- dicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . Edmund Neal , known by the ...
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... performance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it was a very profitable poem . Of his Pindar , mentioned by Oldisworth , I have never ...
... performance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it was a very profitable poem . Of his Pindar , mentioned by Oldisworth , I have never ...
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... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being Clerk of the Closet to the king , he was made Dean of the Chapel Royal ; and the year afterwards received the last proof of ...
... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being Clerk of the Closet to the king , he was made Dean of the Chapel Royal ; and the year afterwards received the last proof of ...
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... performances which gratitude forbids us to blame , affection will easily dispose us to exalt . To these prejudices , hardly culpable , interest adds a power always operating , though not always , because not willingly , perceived . The ...
... performances which gratitude forbids us to blame , affection will easily dispose us to exalt . To these prejudices , hardly culpable , interest adds a power always operating , though not always , because not willingly , perceived . The ...
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