The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen21783 |
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... less time than The Virgin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either , oftentati oufly or mournfully to tell how little labour it coft him , or at how short a warning he pro- duced it . It was a temporary performance , written in ...
... less time than The Virgin Martyr ; though the author thought not fit either , oftentati oufly or mournfully to tell how little labour it coft him , or at how short a warning he pro- duced it . It was a temporary performance , written in ...
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... less ; he the faid Jacob Tonson being 66 66 obliged to make up the forefaid sum of " two hundred fixty - eight pounds fifteen fhillings three hundred pounds , at the beginning of the second impreffion of the " forefaid ten thousand ...
... less ; he the faid Jacob Tonson being 66 66 obliged to make up the forefaid sum of " two hundred fixty - eight pounds fifteen fhillings three hundred pounds , at the beginning of the second impreffion of the " forefaid ten thousand ...
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... less liberal in those times than in our own ; their views were narrower , and their manners groffer . To the mercan- tile ruggedness of that race , the delicacy of the poet was fometimes expofed . Lord Bo- lingbroke , who in his youth ...
... less liberal in those times than in our own ; their views were narrower , and their manners groffer . To the mercan- tile ruggedness of that race , the delicacy of the poet was fometimes expofed . Lord Bo- lingbroke , who in his youth ...
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... less afraid of novelty , had already poffeffion of thofe dreadful images : Waller had described a fea - fight . Milton had not yet transferred the invention of fire - arms to the rebellious angels . This poem is written with great dili ...
... less afraid of novelty , had already poffeffion of thofe dreadful images : Waller had described a fea - fight . Milton had not yet transferred the invention of fire - arms to the rebellious angels . This poem is written with great dili ...
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... less pleasure , though it difcovers equal abilities in the writer . The fuperftructure cannot extend beyond the foundation ; a fingle character or incident cannot furnish as many ideas , as a series of events , or multiplicity of agents ...
... less pleasure , though it difcovers equal abilities in the writer . The fuperftructure cannot extend beyond the foundation ; a fingle character or incident cannot furnish as many ideas , as a series of events , or multiplicity of agents ...
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