Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... hope to equal expectation . This work he did not live to finish ; his diseases , a slow con- sumption and an asthma , put a stop to his studies , and on Feb. 15 , 1708 , at the beginning of his thirty - third year , put an end to his ...
... hope to equal expectation . This work he did not live to finish ; his diseases , a slow con- sumption and an asthma , put a stop to his studies , and on Feb. 15 , 1708 , at the beginning of his thirty - third year , put an end to his ...
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... hope to be considered as the repeater of a jest . " The parody on Milton , " says Gildon , " is the only tolerable production of its author . " This is a censure too dogmatical and violent . The poem of Blenheim ' was never denied to be ...
... hope to be considered as the repeater of a jest . " The parody on Milton , " says Gildon , " is the only tolerable production of its author . " This is a censure too dogmatical and violent . The poem of Blenheim ' was never denied to be ...
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... hope that he , who could raise mean subjects so high , should still be more elevated on greater themes ; that he , that could draw such noble ideas from a shilling , could not fail upon such a subject as the Duke of Marlborough , which ...
... hope that he , who could raise mean subjects so high , should still be more elevated on greater themes ; that he , that could draw such noble ideas from a shilling , could not fail upon such a subject as the Duke of Marlborough , which ...
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... 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 hear , it is at ...
... 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 hear , it is at ...
Pàgina 57
... hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . He was of an advanced age , and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt . He was a Whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ...
... hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . He was of an advanced age , and I was only yet a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt . He was a Whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ...
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