The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... written but printed in his thirteenth year ; contain- ing with other poetical conpositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe . " written when was ten years old ; and Constantia and Philetus , written two years after . While ...
... written but printed in his thirteenth year ; contain- ing with other poetical conpositions , " The tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe . " written when was ten years old ; and Constantia and Philetus , written two years after . While ...
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... writing when the feuds of civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was ... written with narrow views , and instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to ...
... writing when the feuds of civil war were yet recent , and the minds of either party were easily irritated , was ... written with narrow views , and instead of tracing intellectual pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to ...
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... writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class ... written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the ...
... writing more than for another , his power seems to have been greatest in the familiar and the festive . The next class ... written with exuberance of wit , and with copiousness of learning ; and it is truly asserted by Sprat , that the ...
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... written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer , whom , without thinking on a woman but as the sub ject for his task , we sometimes ...
... written for penance by a hermit , or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they turn the mind only on the writer , whom , without thinking on a woman but as the sub ject for his task , we sometimes ...
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... written in so many forms , and with such minute inquiry , that I might perhaps more properly have contented myself with the addition of a few notes on Mr. Fenton's elegant Abridgement , but that a new narrative was thought ne- cessary ...
... written in so many forms , and with such minute inquiry , that I might perhaps more properly have contented myself with the addition of a few notes on Mr. Fenton's elegant Abridgement , but that a new narrative was thought ne- cessary ...
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