The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 2
... poem on the " Deity , " which stands first in his volume . It is the established practice of that College , to send every year to the Earl of Exeter some poems upon sacred subjects , in acknowledgment of a benefaction enjoyed by them ...
... poem on the " Deity , " which stands first in his volume . It is the established practice of that College , to send every year to the Earl of Exeter some poems upon sacred subjects , in acknowledgment of a benefaction enjoyed by them ...
Pagina 7
... poem , that he had no service of plate ; and it appeared , by the debts which he contracted , that his remittances were not punctually made . On the first of August , 1714 , ensued the downfal of the tories and the degradation of Prior ...
... poem , that he had no service of plate ; and it appeared , by the debts which he contracted , that his remittances were not punctually made . On the first of August , 1714 , ensued the downfal of the tories and the degradation of Prior ...
Pagina 14
... poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His ...
... poem on the battle of Ramillies is necessarily tedious by the form of the stanza : an uniform mass of ten lines thirty- five times repeated , inconsequential and slightly connected , must weary both the ear and the understanding . His ...
Pagina 16
... poem proceeds not from the uni- formity of the subject , for it is sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon re- lates the successive vicissitudes of his own mind , without the ...
... poem proceeds not from the uni- formity of the subject , for it is sufficiently diversified , but from the continued tenor of the narration ; in which Solomon re- lates the successive vicissitudes of his own mind , without the ...
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