Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day:: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Early English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices,Oliver & Boyd, 1828 - 560 páginas |
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... fame enough , and probably much less would have sufficed ; for no writer ever appeared so little solicitous about re- putation . He wrote dramas , for this was necessary to gain a living ; and he made them the finest the world ever saw ...
... fame enough , and probably much less would have sufficed ; for no writer ever appeared so little solicitous about re- putation . He wrote dramas , for this was necessary to gain a living ; and he made them the finest the world ever saw ...
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... fame . " He wrote for the great vulgar and the small , " says one of the most elo- quent of his panegyrists , " not for posterity . If Queen Elizabeth and the maids of honour laughed at his worst jokes , and the catcalls in the gallery ...
... fame . " He wrote for the great vulgar and the small , " says one of the most elo- quent of his panegyrists , " not for posterity . If Queen Elizabeth and the maids of honour laughed at his worst jokes , and the catcalls in the gallery ...
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... Fame which it long occupied , -not from any sudden accident , but by the mere effects of time on its brittle and worth- less , though finely - wrought materials . The works of Waller are , however , still embodied in the voluminous ...
... Fame which it long occupied , -not from any sudden accident , but by the mere effects of time on its brittle and worth- less , though finely - wrought materials . The works of Waller are , however , still embodied in the voluminous ...
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... fame nor censure they regarded ; They neither punish'd nor rewarded . He cared not what the footman did ; Her maids she neither praised nor chid : So every servant took his course , And , bad at first , they all grew worse . Slothful ...
... fame nor censure they regarded ; They neither punish'd nor rewarded . He cared not what the footman did ; Her maids she neither praised nor chid : So every servant took his course , And , bad at first , they all grew worse . Slothful ...
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... poet is eclipsed by his fame as a prose writer , and he is thus in some measure the martyr of his own popularity . Swift was the son of an English attorney ; but he was born in Dublin , and 270 SWIFT . Song in Bellamira Love JONATHAN SWIFT.
... poet is eclipsed by his fame as a prose writer , and he is thus in some measure the martyr of his own popularity . Swift was the son of an English attorney ; but he was born in Dublin , and 270 SWIFT . Song in Bellamira Love JONATHAN SWIFT.
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