Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2J. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1925 - 787 pagina's |
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Pagina 179
... common vanity of common men , and triumphs in those distinctions which he had affected to despise . He is proud that his book was presented to the King and Queen by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole ; he is proud that they had ...
... common vanity of common men , and triumphs in those distinctions which he had affected to despise . He is proud that his book was presented to the King and Queen by the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole ; he is proud that they had ...
Pagina 365
... common fame , and a very slight personal knowledge . He was , by his original , one of the Macgregors , a clan that became , about sixty years ago , under the conduct of Robin Roy , so formidable and so infamous for violence and robbery ...
... common fame , and a very slight personal knowledge . He was , by his original , one of the Macgregors , a clan that became , about sixty years ago , under the conduct of Robin Roy , so formidable and so infamous for violence and robbery ...
Pagina 389
... common use : finding in Dryden " honey redolent of Spring , " an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension by making " gales " to be " redolent of joy and youth ...
... common use : finding in Dryden " honey redolent of Spring , " an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language , Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension by making " gales " to be " redolent of joy and youth ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
THOMAS YALDEN 16711736 | 53 |
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