“The” Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Robert AndersonRobert Anderson Arch, 1795 - 11191 páginas |
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... these three contradictory lines , the poet complains more than the father - in - law , the friend , or the widower . When Young married Lady Elizabeth Lee , fhe had a fon and two daughters living by her former hufband . The fon was an ...
... these three contradictory lines , the poet complains more than the father - in - law , the friend , or the widower . When Young married Lady Elizabeth Lee , fhe had a fon and two daughters living by her former hufband . The fon was an ...
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... these extraordinary poems , written after he was sixty , it was the defire of Young to be princi- pally known . He intituled the four volumes which he published himself , The Works of the Author ' of the Night Thoughts . From these he ...
... these extraordinary poems , written after he was sixty , it was the defire of Young to be princi- pally known . He intituled the four volumes which he published himself , The Works of the Author ' of the Night Thoughts . From these he ...
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... these or- naments to our language [ The Night Thoughts ] , it is impoffible to deny . Nor would it be common hardiness to contend , that worldly discontent had no hand in these joint productions of poetry and piety . Yet I am by no ...
... these or- naments to our language [ The Night Thoughts ] , it is impoffible to deny . Nor would it be common hardiness to contend , that worldly discontent had no hand in these joint productions of poetry and piety . Yet I am by no ...
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... THESE fatires have been favourably received at home and abroad . I am not conscious of the leaft malevolence to any particular perfon through all the characters ; though fome perfons may be fo felfish as to engrofs a general application ...
... THESE fatires have been favourably received at home and abroad . I am not conscious of the leaft malevolence to any particular perfon through all the characters ; though fome perfons may be fo felfish as to engrofs a general application ...
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... These fink , as divers , for renown ; and boast , With pride inverted , of their honours loft . But against reafon fure ' tis equal fin , The boaft of merely being out , or in . What numbers bere , through odd ambition , ftrive To feem ...
... These fink , as divers , for renown ; and boast , With pride inverted , of their honours loft . But against reafon fure ' tis equal fin , The boaft of merely being out , or in . What numbers bere , through odd ambition , ftrive To feem ...
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