Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... Poets . Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . ' 6 For this translation he received five guineas . Such ...
... Poets . Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste . ' 6 For this translation he received five guineas . Such ...
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... Poets . ' The occasion of this work was the pub- lication by the Martins at Edinburgh of a very faulty edition of the English Poets , which was both deficient and incorrect . Hereupon the London booksellers met and resolved to unite in ...
... Poets . ' The occasion of this work was the pub- lication by the Martins at Edinburgh of a very faulty edition of the English Poets , which was both deficient and incorrect . Hereupon the London booksellers met and resolved to unite in ...
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... Poets , with some few hasty and imperfect corrections , and this was his last work of any importance . In December 1784 he died . The one fear he had even to the last was of loss of reason . Having been informed of his con- dition by ...
... Poets , with some few hasty and imperfect corrections , and this was his last work of any importance . In December 1784 he died . The one fear he had even to the last was of loss of reason . Having been informed of his con- dition by ...
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... poet what durable materials are to the architect ' ( p . 87 ) . There is , it need hardly be said , no necessity to confine this rule to poets only ; it is sound and good for all literature ; and if it seems a truism to the modern ...
... poet what durable materials are to the architect ' ( p . 87 ) . There is , it need hardly be said , no necessity to confine this rule to poets only ; it is sound and good for all literature ; and if it seems a truism to the modern ...
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... poet is circumscribed by the narrowness of his subject . Whatever can happen to man has happened so often , that little remains for fancy or invention . We have been all born ; we have most of us been married ; and so many have died ...
... poet is circumscribed by the narrowness of his subject . Whatever can happen to man has happened so often , that little remains for fancy or invention . We have been all born ; we have most of us been married ; and so many have died ...
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