The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... death .- " Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile , Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof , By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
... death .- " Tis dreadful ! How reverend is the face of this tall pile , Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads , To bear aloft its arch'd and ponderous roof , By its own weight made stedfast and immoveable , Looking tranquillity ...
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... death of queen Mary in lines like these : The rocks are cleft , and new - descending rills Furrow the brows of all th ' impending hills . The water - gods to floods their rivulets turn , And each , with streaming eyes , supplies his ...
... death of queen Mary in lines like these : The rocks are cleft , and new - descending rills Furrow the brows of all th ' impending hills . The water - gods to floods their rivulets turn , And each , with streaming eyes , supplies his ...
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... death by mr.White of Nayland in Essex , the minister who attended his death - bed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits , whom he ...
... death by mr.White of Nayland in Essex , the minister who attended his death - bed , and testified the fervent piety of his last hours . He died on the eighth of October , 1729 . BLACKMORE , by the unremitted enmity of the wits , whom he ...
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... ex- cellent versifier and a good poet . Whatever I have said of Fenton is confirmed by Pope in a letter , by which he communicated to Broome an ac- count of his death : - ΤΟ The Revd . Mr. BROOME . At PULHAM , 34 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... ex- cellent versifier and a good poet . Whatever I have said of Fenton is confirmed by Pope in a letter , by which he communicated to Broome an ac- count of his death : - ΤΟ The Revd . Mr. BROOME . At PULHAM , 34 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... death of Mr. Fenton , before yrs came ; but stay'd to have inform'd myself and you of ye circumstances of it . All I hear is , that he felt a Gradual Decay , tho so early in life , & was declining for 5 or 6 months . It was not , as I ...
... death of Mr. Fenton , before yrs came ; but stay'd to have inform'd myself and you of ye circumstances of it . All I hear is , that he felt a Gradual Decay , tho so early in life , & was declining for 5 or 6 months . It was not , as I ...
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Aaron Hill acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence father faults favour Fenton friends friendship gave genius honour Iliad imagination kind king known labour lady learning letter lines lived lord lord Halifax Lyttelton mankind mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers observed once Orrery panegyric passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed published queen racter reader reason received remarkable reputation resentment rhyme satire Savage says seems shew shewn sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel verses virtue write written wrote Young