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... tion of a Poet Laureat , by Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham . They are , for the most part , vulgar and poor , with that strange af- fectation of slovenliness , which the lower species of satire , in those times , appears to have ...
... tion of a Poet Laureat , by Sheffield , Duke of Buckingham . They are , for the most part , vulgar and poor , with that strange af- fectation of slovenliness , which the lower species of satire , in those times , appears to have ...
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... tion ! " ' Twas lucky for Colman he wasn't there too , For his pranks would have certainly met with their due , And Sheridan's also , that finished old tricker ; - But one was in prison , and both were in liquor . ( 5 ) The God fell a ...
... tion ! " ' Twas lucky for Colman he wasn't there too , For his pranks would have certainly met with their due , And Sheridan's also , that finished old tricker ; - But one was in prison , and both were in liquor . ( 5 ) The God fell a ...
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... tion of Poet Laureat , where Pope , Prior , and others , are among the candidates , he thus mo- destly introduces himself : — When Buckingham came , he scarce car'd to be seen , Till Phoebus desir'd his old friend to walk in : But a ...
... tion of Poet Laureat , where Pope , Prior , and others , are among the candidates , he thus mo- destly introduces himself : — When Buckingham came , he scarce car'd to be seen , Till Phoebus desir'd his old friend to walk in : But a ...
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... tion , " treating the accusation against him as a cant , and suspecting that the accusers themselves " would have less pleasure in his works , if he had tried to relieve attention by studied discords , and affected to break his lines ...
... tion , " treating the accusation against him as a cant , and suspecting that the accusers themselves " would have less pleasure in his works , if he had tried to relieve attention by studied discords , and affected to break his lines ...
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... tion that his author must have infallibly written what was best . The reader will recollect that these lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton's ear profited by his acquaintance with the Greek and Italian ...
... tion that his author must have infallibly written what was best . The reader will recollect that these lines are in the course of a very long poem ; yet so little had Warton's ear profited by his acquaintance with the Greek and Italian ...
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