The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonT. Longman, 1794 - English poetry |
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... never ascertained : we are informed that they were of " gentle " blood ; " that his father was of a family of which the earl of Downe was the head , and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , Efquire , of York , who had ...
... never ascertained : we are informed that they were of " gentle " blood ; " that his father was of a family of which the earl of Downe was the head , and that his mother was the daughter of William Turner , Efquire , of York , who had ...
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... never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his tranflations . Sandys very rarely attempted original compofition . From the care of Taverner ...
... never repaid with any praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its beauty to his tranflations . Sandys very rarely attempted original compofition . From the care of Taverner ...
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... never fo contemptible , his inward man is " ten times more ridiculous ; it being impof- " fible that his outward form , though it be ແ that of downright monkey , should differ so " much from human shape , as his unthink- ing immaterial ...
... never fo contemptible , his inward man is " ten times more ridiculous ; it being impof- " fible that his outward form , though it be ແ that of downright monkey , should differ so " much from human shape , as his unthink- ing immaterial ...
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... never printed , by Robotham , fecretary to the King for Hanover , and by Refnel ; and commented by Dr. Warburton , who has difcovered in it fuch order and connexion as was not perceived by Addison , nor , as is faid , intended by the ...
... never printed , by Robotham , fecretary to the King for Hanover , and by Refnel ; and commented by Dr. Warburton , who has difcovered in it fuch order and connexion as was not perceived by Addison , nor , as is faid , intended by the ...
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... never afterwards produce any thing of fuch unexampled excellence . Thofe performances , which strike with wonder , are combinations of fkilful genius with happy cafualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like the discovery of a ...
... never afterwards produce any thing of fuch unexampled excellence . Thofe performances , which strike with wonder , are combinations of fkilful genius with happy cafualty ; and it is not likely that any felicity , like the discovery of a ...
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