The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, 7. köideMitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... Godwin not only thinks , that we have here'a foretaste of the sort of writer he was afterwards to become ' - but has transcribed two stanzas , which he supposes ' peculiarly ' excellent ; and hardly durst call the death of that child ...
... Godwin not only thinks , that we have here'a foretaste of the sort of writer he was afterwards to become ' - but has transcribed two stanzas , which he supposes ' peculiarly ' excellent ; and hardly durst call the death of that child ...
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With Lives of the Authors Ezekiel Sanford. Mr. Godwin , in this respect ; and we know not what ' sort of writer ' Milton would have become , if he had always composed such verses as these : - Yet can I not perswade me thou art dead , Or ...
With Lives of the Authors Ezekiel Sanford. Mr. Godwin , in this respect ; and we know not what ' sort of writer ' Milton would have become , if he had always composed such verses as these : - Yet can I not perswade me thou art dead , Or ...
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... Godwin proceeds to prove , beyond all doubt , what Dr. Johnson only feared ' was true . For my part , ( says he , ) I am not disposed to controvert the anecdote . It is re- lated by Aubrey , the sincere and affectionate lover of the ...
... Godwin proceeds to prove , beyond all doubt , what Dr. Johnson only feared ' was true . For my part , ( says he , ) I am not disposed to controvert the anecdote . It is re- lated by Aubrey , the sincere and affectionate lover of the ...
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... Godwin is again enraged ; and , though he does not undertake to disprove the interpretation , he is , we think , much more entitled to be angry in this case , than in the former . Milton says , Me tenet urbs reflua quam Thamisis alluit ...
... Godwin is again enraged ; and , though he does not undertake to disprove the interpretation , he is , we think , much more entitled to be angry in this case , than in the former . Milton says , Me tenet urbs reflua quam Thamisis alluit ...
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... Godwin , to be involved. * Some years ( says he ) I had spent in the stories of those Greek and Roman exploits , wherein I found many things both nobly done and worthily spoken : when coming in the method of time to that age wherein the ...
... Godwin , to be involved. * Some years ( says he ) I had spent in the stories of those Greek and Roman exploits , wherein I found many things both nobly done and worthily spoken : when coming in the method of time to that age wherein the ...
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