Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions of English Authors, from the Earliest to the Present Time, Connected by a Critical and Biographical History, Volume 2Robert Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1854 |
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... poetry . The most distinguished of his contemporaries , how- ever , adopted styles of their own , or at least departed widely from that of their illustrious master . Thom- son ( who survived Pope only four years ) made no attempt to ...
... poetry . The most distinguished of his contemporaries , how- ever , adopted styles of their own , or at least departed widely from that of their illustrious master . Thom- son ( who survived Pope only four years ) made no attempt to ...
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... poetry professed a strong love of retirement , the ministry seized upon this as a pretext for keeping him out of a bishopric . The poet made a noble alliance with the daughter of the Earl of Lichfield , widow of Colonel Lee , which ...
... poetry professed a strong love of retirement , the ministry seized upon this as a pretext for keeping him out of a bishopric . The poet made a noble alliance with the daughter of the Earl of Lichfield , widow of Colonel Lee , which ...
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... poetry , and the emanations of benevolence . In the Castle of Indolence we have the concentration or essence of those materials applied to a subject less poetical , but still affording room for luxuriant fancy , the most exquisite art ...
... poetry , and the emanations of benevolence . In the Castle of Indolence we have the concentration or essence of those materials applied to a subject less poetical , but still affording room for luxuriant fancy , the most exquisite art ...
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... poet had origi- nally introduced three damsels ! Of propriety of language consequent on these corrections , we may cite an example in a line from the episode of La- ing chancellor bestowed the situation on another , Thomson not having ...
... poet had origi- nally introduced three damsels ! Of propriety of language consequent on these corrections , we may cite an example in a line from the episode of La- ing chancellor bestowed the situation on another , Thomson not having ...
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... poet is concerned , the last corrected edition is a new work . The power of Thomson , however , lay not in his art , but in ... poetry of the human breast , his redundant style comes to us as something venial and adventitious - it is the ...
... poet is concerned , the last corrected edition is a new work . The power of Thomson , however , lay not in his art , but in ... poetry of the human breast , his redundant style comes to us as something venial and adventitious - it is the ...
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