The feast of the poets, with notes, and other pieces in verse, by the editor of The Examiner. The dedication signed: Leigh HuntLondon, 1815 |
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... faults of such men , Ye shall try , wretched mortals , how well ye can bear What Dryden has witness'd , unsmote . with despair . " ? " 21 He said ; and the place all seem'd swelling with light , While his locks and his visage grew ...
... faults of such men , Ye shall try , wretched mortals , how well ye can bear What Dryden has witness'd , unsmote . with despair . " ? " 21 He said ; and the place all seem'd swelling with light , While his locks and his visage grew ...
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... faults , * To laugh at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts , " Would Dryden have pardoned such a rhyme ? " It would ... fault was not only dropt or retained at pleasure , but that in conversation it was generally suppressed . " It is ...
... faults , * To laugh at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts , " Would Dryden have pardoned such a rhyme ? " It would ... fault was not only dropt or retained at pleasure , but that in conversation it was generally suppressed . " It is ...
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... faults - if belles had faults to hide : If to her share - some female errours fall , Look on her face - and you'll forget them all . This is a very brilliant description of a drawing- room heroine ; but what are the merits of it's ...
... faults - if belles had faults to hide : If to her share - some female errours fall , Look on her face - and you'll forget them all . This is a very brilliant description of a drawing- room heroine ; but what are the merits of it's ...
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... faults of his youth , and even to attribute his misfortunes to * The one I have is an octavo , printed at Oxford in 1722 , but the first edition appears to have been in quarto . Asser was edited also by Camden and by Archbishop Parker ...
... faults of his youth , and even to attribute his misfortunes to * The one I have is an octavo , printed at Oxford in 1722 , but the first edition appears to have been in quarto . Asser was edited also by Camden and by Archbishop Parker ...
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... fault of Mr. Rogers is direct imitation of not the best models , written in a style at once vague and elaborate . His Pleasures of Memory , -a poem , at best , in imitation of Goldsmith , -is written in the worst and most monotonous ...
... fault of Mr. Rogers is direct imitation of not the best models , written in a style at once vague and elaborate . His Pleasures of Memory , -a poem , at best , in imitation of Goldsmith , -is written in the worst and most monotonous ...
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