Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 30
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot , nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my ...
... kind ; he is an original writer , who borrowed neither the models of his plot , nor the manner of his dialogue . Of his plays I cannot speak distinctly ; for since I inspected them many years have passed ; but what remains upon my ...
Pagina 62
... kind- ness from the house of Hanover . He did not , however , omit to improve the right which his office had given him to the notice of the royal family . On the arrival of the princess of Wales , he wrote a poem , and obtained so much ...
... kind- ness from the house of Hanover . He did not , however , omit to improve the right which his office had given him to the notice of the royal family . On the arrival of the princess of Wales , he wrote a poem , and obtained so much ...
Pagina 236
... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has sur- passed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
... kind arose , as Mr. Savage told me , from his perusal of Prior's Nut - brown Maid . How much he has sur- passed Prior's work it is not necessary to mention , when perhaps it may be said with justice , that he has excelled every ...
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