The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, المجلد 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself , in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was seen , and in some little time more it was acted ; and I , through ...
... wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself , in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was seen , and in some little time more it was acted ; and I , through ...
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... wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself , in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was seen , and in some little time more it was acted ; and I , through ...
... wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it , to amuse myself , in a slow recovery from a fit of sickness . Afterwards , through my indiscretion , it was seen , and in some little time more it was acted ; and I , through ...
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... wrote his own . His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical , and the additions which he makes are of little value . He some- times retains what were more properly omitted , as when he talks of vervain and gums to propitiate ...
... wrote his own . His imitations of Horace are feebly paraphrastical , and the additions which he makes are of little value . He some- times retains what were more properly omitted , as when he talks of vervain and gums to propitiate ...
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... wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was ...
... wrote not for a livelihood but for fame ; or , if he may tell his own motives , for a nobler purpose , to engage poetry in the cause of virtue . I believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was ...
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... wrote a poem on the kit - cat club , and advice to the poets how to celebrate the duke of Marlborough ; but , on occasion of another year of suc- cess , thinking himself qualified to give more instruction , he again wrote a poem of ...
... wrote a poem on the kit - cat club , and advice to the poets how to celebrate the duke of Marlborough ; but , on occasion of another year of suc- cess , thinking himself qualified to give more instruction , he again wrote a poem of ...
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