The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 9
... Lady Harriot at Cambridge ( a fellow of a college treat ! ) and spoke verses to her in a gown and cap ! What , the pleni- potentiary , so far concerned in the damned peace at Utrecht the man that makes up half the volume of terse prose ...
... Lady Harriot at Cambridge ( a fellow of a college treat ! ) and spoke verses to her in a gown and cap ! What , the pleni- potentiary , so far concerned in the damned peace at Utrecht the man that makes up half the volume of terse prose ...
Pagina 12
... lady that sat next him , he produced these extemporary lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to ...
... lady that sat next him , he produced these extemporary lines : Mais cette voix , et ces beaux yeux , Font Cupidon trop dangereux ; Et je suis triste quand je crie , Bannissons la Melancholie . Tradition represents him as willing to ...
Pagina 14
... lady's constancy , is such as must end either in infamy to her , or in disappoint- ment to himself . His Occasional Poems necessarily lost part of their value , as their occasions , being less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of ...
... lady's constancy , is such as must end either in infamy to her , or in disappoint- ment to himself . His Occasional Poems necessarily lost part of their value , as their occasions , being less remembered , raised less emotion . Some of ...
Pagina 22
... ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol , a tame idiot , Bluff , 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 ...
... ladies ; or easy and common , as Wittol , a tame idiot , Bluff , 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 ...
Pagina 30
... Lady Gethin , the latter part is in imitation of Dryden's Ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and Doris , that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , has indeed some lively stanzas , but the expression might be mended ; and the most striking ...
... Lady Gethin , the latter part is in imitation of Dryden's Ode on Mrs. Killigrew ; and Doris , that has been so lavishly flattered by Steele , has indeed some lively stanzas , but the expression might be mended ; and the most striking ...
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