The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without some suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I ...
... hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without some suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I ...
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... hope , by seeing him fortu- nate , and partaking his prosperity . We knew at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
... hope , by seeing him fortu- nate , and partaking his prosperity . We knew at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care , and justly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
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... hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his re- ward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood ...
... hope , that great numbers were inevitably disappointed ; and Cowley found his re- ward very tediously delayed . He had been promised by both Charles the First and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he lost it , " says Wood ...
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... hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whe- ther I shall ever recover it , ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the Dean , might be very merry upon St. Ann's ...
... hope to recover my late hurt so far within five or six days ( though it be uncertain yet whe- ther I shall ever recover it , ) as to walk about again . And then , methinks , you and I and the Dean , might be very merry upon St. Ann's ...
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... hope of greatness : for great things cannot have escaped former observation . Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured ...
... hope of greatness : for great things cannot have escaped former observation . Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent , by their slender conceits and laboured ...
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