Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... Odes , written and published when he was a young man , drew from Dryden ( who was his relation ) the emphatic judgment , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet : " and , though Swift never forgave this frankness , he seems to have ...
... Odes , written and published when he was a young man , drew from Dryden ( who was his relation ) the emphatic judgment , " Cousin Swift , you will never be a poet : " and , though Swift never forgave this frankness , he seems to have ...
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With Specimens of the Principal Writers George Lillie Craik. Odes . Nor indeed did he ever afterwards attempt any thing considerable in the way of serious poetry , if we ex- cept his ' Cadenus and Vanessa ' ( the story of Miss Van ...
With Specimens of the Principal Writers George Lillie Craik. Odes . Nor indeed did he ever afterwards attempt any thing considerable in the way of serious poetry , if we ex- cept his ' Cadenus and Vanessa ' ( the story of Miss Van ...
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... in Tonson's Miscellany in 1709 , when he was yet only in his twenty - first year ; and they had been written five years before . Nor were they the earliest of his per- formances ; his Ode on Solitude , his verses upon POPE . 83.
... in Tonson's Miscellany in 1709 , when he was yet only in his twenty - first year ; and they had been written five years before . Nor were they the earliest of his per- formances ; his Ode on Solitude , his verses upon POPE . 83.
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With Specimens of the Principal Writers George Lillie Craik. formances ; his Ode on Solitude , his verses upon Silence , his translations of the First Book of the Thebais and of Ovid's Epistle from Sappho to Phaon , and his much more ...
With Specimens of the Principal Writers George Lillie Craik. formances ; his Ode on Solitude , his verses upon Silence , his translations of the First Book of the Thebais and of Ovid's Epistle from Sappho to Phaon , and his much more ...
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... Ode 15 ) , which he thus applied at the time to the Jacobite outbreak of 1715 : — As Mar his round one morning took ( Whom some call Earl and some call Duke ) , And his new brethren of the blade , Shivering with fear and frost ...
... Ode 15 ) , which he thus applied at the time to the Jacobite outbreak of 1715 : — As Mar his round one morning took ( Whom some call Earl and some call Duke ) , And his new brethren of the blade , Shivering with fear and frost ...
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