The Town: Its Memorable Characters and EventsOxford University Press, 1907 - 527 pages |
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Page 55
... poet to have contemplated with delight , in his fondness for ornaments of that cast ; and the whole building was calculated to impress a mind , more disposed , at that time of life , to admire as a poet , than to quarrel as a critic or ...
... poet to have contemplated with delight , in his fondness for ornaments of that cast ; and the whole building was calculated to impress a mind , more disposed , at that time of life , to admire as a poet , than to quarrel as a critic or ...
Page 166
... poet at his word , both for his panegyric and his hint : for it was he that gave Spenser his funeral in Westminster , and he was not of a spirit . to treat a great poet , as poets have sometimes been treated with neglect in their ...
... poet at his word , both for his panegyric and his hint : for it was he that gave Spenser his funeral in Westminster , and he was not of a spirit . to treat a great poet , as poets have sometimes been treated with neglect in their ...
Page 364
... poet , ' seems to have been particularly affronted at a presumptuous plan of that publisher ( a keen Whig , and Secretary to the Kit - Cat Club ) to drive him into inscribing the translation of Virgil to King William . With this view ...
... poet , ' seems to have been particularly affronted at a presumptuous plan of that publisher ( a keen Whig , and Secretary to the Kit - Cat Club ) to drive him into inscribing the translation of Virgil to King William . With this view ...
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