The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 - English poetry |
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... censures he even courted and solicited , submitting to their animadversions , and the freedom they took with them , with an unreserved and prudent resignation . I have seen sketches and rough draughts of some poems to be designed , set ...
... censures he even courted and solicited , submitting to their animadversions , and the freedom they took with them , with an unreserved and prudent resignation . I have seen sketches and rough draughts of some poems to be designed , set ...
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... censures or praises which he dropped in conversation were considered , like those of Sca- liger , as worthy of preservation . He had great readiness and exactness of cri- ticism , and by a cursory glance over a new compo- sition would ...
... censures or praises which he dropped in conversation were considered , like those of Sca- liger , as worthy of preservation . He had great readiness and exactness of cri- ticism , and by a cursory glance over a new compo- sition would ...
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... censure , and Pope in the character of Bufo with acrimonious contempt . He was , as Pope says , " fed with dedications ; " for Tickell affirms that no dedication was unre- warded . To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of ...
... censure , and Pope in the character of Bufo with acrimonious contempt . He was , as Pope says , " fed with dedications ; " for Tickell affirms that no dedication was unre- warded . To charge all unmerited praise with the guilt of ...
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... censure from those whom he forsook , and was received by the new ministry as a valuable reinforcement . When the Earl of Oxford was told that Dr. Parnell waited among the crowd in the outer room , he went by the per- suasion of Swift ...
... censure from those whom he forsook , and was received by the new ministry as a valuable reinforcement . When the Earl of Oxford was told that Dr. Parnell waited among the crowd in the outer room , he went by the per- suasion of Swift ...
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... censure those of another persuasion . His conversation was plea- sant , witty , and learned , without the least tincture of affectation or pedantry ; and his inimitable man- ner of diverting and enlivening the company made it impossible ...
... censure those of another persuasion . His conversation was plea- sant , witty , and learned , without the least tincture of affectation or pedantry ; and his inimitable man- ner of diverting and enlivening the company made it impossible ...
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