The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... say of another ; and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better to transcribe at once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect ...
... say of another ; and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better to transcribe at once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect ...
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... says in his Art of Poetry , ' Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium ; alterius sic ... say nothing of his person , which yet was so well turned , that no neglect of himself in his dress could render it ...
... says in his Art of Poetry , ' Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium ; alterius sic ... say nothing of his person , which yet was so well turned , that no neglect of himself in his dress could render it ...
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... say she surpasses the French one , though embellished with whatever regular beauties and moving softness Racine himself could give her . No man had a juster notion of the difficulty of composing than Mr. Smith , and he sometimes would ...
... say she surpasses the French one , though embellished with whatever regular beauties and moving softness Racine himself could give her . No man had a juster notion of the difficulty of composing than Mr. Smith , and he sometimes would ...
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... say , as Horace did of himself , what I never yet saw translated ; ' Meo sum pauper in ære . ' At his coming to town , no man was more surrounded by all those who really had or pretended to wit , or more courted by the great men , who ...
... say , as Horace did of himself , what I never yet saw translated ; ' Meo sum pauper in ære . ' At his coming to town , no man was more surrounded by all those who really had or pretended to wit , or more courted by the great men , who ...
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... of Smith's life which with more honour to his name might have been concealed . Of Smith I can yet say a little more . He was a man of VOL . II . B such estimation among his companions that the casual censures or SMITH 17.
... of Smith's life which with more honour to his name might have been concealed . Of Smith I can yet say a little more . He was a man of VOL . II . B such estimation among his companions that the casual censures or SMITH 17.
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