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Page 19
... ( probably the ode to the young Sailor- Prince ) to Mr. Dodsley . Only a day later he writes : " Judging it best to have two strings to the bow , and fearing Mr. Dodsley's will snap , I have finished . another little work from that ...
... ( probably the ode to the young Sailor- Prince ) to Mr. Dodsley . Only a day later he writes : " Judging it best to have two strings to the bow , and fearing Mr. Dodsley's will snap , I have finished . another little work from that ...
Page 21
... probably receiving similar applications every week of their lives . During three days in June , Crabbe's attention is diverted from his own distresses by the Lord George Gordon Riots , of which his journal from June 8th contains some ...
... probably receiving similar applications every week of their lives . During three days in June , Crabbe's attention is diverted from his own distresses by the Lord George Gordon Riots , of which his journal from June 8th contains some ...
Page 27
... probably offended by my importunity . Having used every honest means in vain , I yesterday confessed my inability , and obtained with much entreaty and as the greatest favour a week's forbearance , when I am positively told that I must ...
... probably offended by my importunity . Having used every honest means in vain , I yesterday confessed my inability , and obtained with much entreaty and as the greatest favour a week's forbearance , when I am positively told that I must ...
Page 32
... probably thought that a new poet desiring to be heard would be wiser in not at once quitting the old paths . The readers of poetry still had a taste for didactic epigram varied by a certain amount of florid rhetoric . And there was ...
... probably thought that a new poet desiring to be heard would be wiser in not at once quitting the old paths . The readers of poetry still had a taste for didactic epigram varied by a certain amount of florid rhetoric . And there was ...
Page 38
... probably soon after the publication of The Library that Crabbe paid his first visit to Beaconsfield , and was welcomed as a guest by Burke's wife and her niece as cordially as by the statesman himself . Here he first met Charles James ...
... probably soon after the publication of The Library that Crabbe paid his first visit to Beaconsfield , and was welcomed as a guest by Burke's wife and her niece as cordially as by the statesman himself . Here he first met Charles James ...
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