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The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ;
perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man
discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of
verses ...
The death of Queen Mary ( in 1695 ) produced a subject for all the writers ;
perhaps no funeral was ever so poetically attended . Dryden , indeed , as a man
discountenanced and deprived , was silent ; but scarcely any other maker of
verses ...
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him to another effort of poetry : On this occasion he had fewer or less formidable
rivals ; and it would be not easy to name any other composition produced by that
event which is now remembered . Every thing has its day . Through the reigns of
...
him to another effort of poetry : On this occasion he had fewer or less formidable
rivals ; and it would be not easy to name any other composition produced by that
event which is now remembered . Every thing has its day . Through the reigns of
...
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In a gay French company , where every one sang a little song or stanza , of which
the burden was , “ Bannissons la Melancholie : " when it came to his turn to sing ,
after the performance of a young lady that sat next him , he produced these ...
In a gay French company , where every one sang a little song or stanza , of which
the burden was , “ Bannissons la Melancholie : " when it came to his turn to sing ,
after the performance of a young lady that sat next him , he produced these ...
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We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and
delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every
couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure .
Perhaps no ...
We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and
delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every
couplet when produced is new , and novelty is the great source of pleasure .
Perhaps no ...
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... a swaggering coward , and Fondlewife , a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe
arises from a mistake not very probably produced , by marrying a woman in a
mask . Yet this gay comedy , when all these deductions are made , will still
remain ...
... a swaggering coward , and Fondlewife , a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe
arises from a mistake not very probably produced , by marrying a woman in a
mask . Yet this gay comedy , when all these deductions are made , will still
remain ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2 Volume 419 van Collection of British and American authors Collection of British authors ; no. 418-419 Volume 418 van Collection of British authors The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Uitgever | B. Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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