The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry professes the ...
... pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry professes the ...
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... pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry professes the ...
... pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry professes the ...
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... of Jamaica ; a place , I suppose , without trust or care , but which , with his post in the customs , is said to have afforded him twelve hundred pounds a year . His honours were yet far greater than his profits . CONGREVE . 7.
... of Jamaica ; a place , I suppose , without trust or care , but which , with his post in the customs , is said to have afforded him twelve hundred pounds a year . His honours were yet far greater than his profits . CONGREVE . 7.
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... pounds ; the accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , though to her superfluous and useless , might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended , at that time , by the imprudence of his relation ...
... pounds ; the accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , though to her superfluous and useless , might have given great assistance to the ancient family from which he descended , at that time , by the imprudence of his relation ...
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... pounds , with which he discharged a debt contracted by his attendance at court . Fenton seems to have had some peculiar system of ver- sification . Mariamne is written in lines of ten syllables , with few of those redundant terminations ...
... pounds , with which he discharged a debt contracted by his attendance at court . Fenton seems to have had some peculiar system of ver- sification . Mariamne is written in lines of ten syllables , with few of those redundant terminations ...
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