The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... pieces , neither elevation of fancy , selec- tion of language , nor skill in versification : yet , if I were required to select , from the whole mass of English poetry , the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could pre- fer to ...
... pieces , neither elevation of fancy , selec- tion of language , nor skill in versification : yet , if I were required to select , from the whole mass of English poetry , the most poetical paragraph , I know not what I could pre- fer to ...
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... pieces broke . See Pales weeping too , in wild despair , And to the piercing winds her bosom bare . And see yon fading myrtle , where appears The queen of love , all bath'd in flowing tears ; See how she wrings her hands , and beats her ...
... pieces broke . See Pales weeping too , in wild despair , And to the piercing winds her bosom bare . And see yon fading myrtle , where appears The queen of love , all bath'd in flowing tears ; See how she wrings her hands , and beats her ...
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... piece addressed to Lambarde is no disagreeable specimen of epistolary poetry ; and his ode to the lord Gower was pronounced by Pope the next ode in the English language to Dryden's Cecilia . Fenton may be justly styled an ex- cellent ...
... piece addressed to Lambarde is no disagreeable specimen of epistolary poetry ; and his ode to the lord Gower was pronounced by Pope the next ode in the English language to Dryden's Cecilia . Fenton may be justly styled an ex- cellent ...
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... piece , as the reader cannot but wish to know the original and progress , I have inserted the reia- tion which Spence has given in Pope's words : — - " Dr. Swift had been observing once to mr . Gay , what an odd pretty sort of a thing a ...
... piece , as the reader cannot but wish to know the original and progress , I have inserted the reia- tion which Spence has given in Pope's words : — - " Dr. Swift had been observing once to mr . Gay , what an odd pretty sort of a thing a ...
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... piece was received with greater applause than was ever known . Besides being acted in London sixty - three days without interruption , and renewed the next season with equal applause , it spread into all the great towns of England ; was ...
... piece was received with greater applause than was ever known . Besides being acted in London sixty - three days without interruption , and renewed the next season with equal applause , it spread into all the great towns of England ; was ...
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