The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... daughter From Gray's Progress of Poesy From Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character Page 5 91 92 94 94 95 96 97 97 From Mason's Ode to Memory .. .... 98 From Dr. Roberts ' Epistle on the English Poets ......... 99 From Cowper's Table ...
... daughter From Gray's Progress of Poesy From Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character Page 5 91 92 94 94 95 96 97 97 From Mason's Ode to Memory .. .... 98 From Dr. Roberts ' Epistle on the English Poets ......... 99 From Cowper's Table ...
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... daughter Anne , whom he mar- ried with a considerable fortune to Edward Philips , who came from Shrewsbury , and rose in the Crown- Office to be secondary : by him she had two sons , John and Edward , who were educated by the poet , and ...
... daughter Anne , whom he mar- ried with a considerable fortune to Edward Philips , who came from Shrewsbury , and rose in the Crown- Office to be secondary : by him she had two sons , John and Edward , who were educated by the poet , and ...
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... daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . 6 His next production was Lycidas , ' an elegy ...
... daughter . The fiction is derived from Homer's Circe , but we never can refuse to any modern the liberty of borrowing from Homer : a quo ceu fonte perenni Vatum Pieriis ora rigantur aquis . 6 His next production was Lycidas , ' an elegy ...
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... daughter of Mr. Powel , a justice of the peace in Oxfordshire . He brought her to town with him , and expected all the advantages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare diet ...
... daughter of Mr. Powel , a justice of the peace in Oxfordshire . He brought her to town with him , and expected all the advantages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare diet ...
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... daughter of one Doctor Davis ' who was however not ready to comply , they resolved to endeavour a reunion . He went sometimes to the house of one Blackborough , bis relation , in the lane of St. Martin's - le - Grand , and at one of his ...
... daughter of one Doctor Davis ' who was however not ready to comply , they resolved to endeavour a reunion . He went sometimes to the house of one Blackborough , bis relation , in the lane of St. Martin's - le - Grand , and at one of his ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.