The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... seem to have been formed upon Horace's plan ; who says in his Art of Poetry , ' Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium ; alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , et conjurat amice . ' He was endowed by ...
... seem to have been formed upon Horace's plan ; who says in his Art of Poetry , ' Ego nec studium sine divite venâ , Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium ; alterius sic Altera poscit opem res , et conjurat amice . ' He was endowed by ...
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... seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times : for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with detestation in his later days , when he published those sermons which Felton has commended . Perhaps , like some ...
... seems to have shared the dissoluteness of the times : for some of his compositions are such as he must have reviewed with detestation in his later days , when he published those sermons which Felton has commended . Perhaps , like some ...
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... seems indeed time to wish for a removal ; for he was already a schoolboy of one - and - twenty . His relation , Dr. Montague , was then master of the college in which he was placed a fellow - commoner , and took him under his particular ...
... seems indeed time to wish for a removal ; for he was already a schoolboy of one - and - twenty . His relation , Dr. Montague , was then master of the college in which he was placed a fellow - commoner , and took him under his particular ...
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... seems to have been made after the event . The king's answer implies a greater acquaintance with our proverbial and familiar diction than King William could possibly have attained . In 1691 , being member in the House of Commons , he ...
... seems to have been made after the event . The king's answer implies a greater acquaintance with our proverbial and familiar diction than King William could possibly have attained . In 1691 , being member in the House of Commons , he ...
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... seems often to have happened in those times to the favourites of the great , without attention to his fortune , which however was in no great need of improvement . Parnell , who did not want ambition or vanity , was desirous to make ...
... seems often to have happened in those times to the favourites of the great , without attention to his fortune , which however was in no great need of improvement . Parnell , who did not want ambition or vanity , was desirous to make ...
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