Kentish Poets. A series of writers in English poetry, natives or residents in the county of Kent; with specimens of their compositions and some account of their lives and writings. By R. F.1821 |
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... nature , and the language is in general correct . That it has some pretensions to poetry the following extracts will prove ; such passages however are of rare occurrence , and the dialogue is most commonly tame and insipid . Ales ...
... nature , and the language is in general correct . That it has some pretensions to poetry the following extracts will prove ; such passages however are of rare occurrence , and the dialogue is most commonly tame and insipid . Ales ...
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... of those admirable touches of nature in which the old dramatic writers excelled , and is equal to any thing in the compass of our stage poetry . Scene before SANDERS's house . Enter SANDERS'S Young Son , INTRODUCTION . XI.
... of those admirable touches of nature in which the old dramatic writers excelled , and is equal to any thing in the compass of our stage poetry . Scene before SANDERS's house . Enter SANDERS'S Young Son , INTRODUCTION . XI.
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... nature . Writers are not wanting who assert , that he made himself a voluntary confession of criminal intimacy with her previous to her marriage . There is every reason to hope , for the credit of our poet , that this calumny was ...
... nature . Writers are not wanting who assert , that he made himself a voluntary confession of criminal intimacy with her previous to her marriage . There is every reason to hope , for the credit of our poet , that this calumny was ...
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... nature may have been . We are told that she indulged in reciting his poems praise ; that she retained his sister even to the latest moment of her life , and rewarded her with the last kind look and gift she had to bestow ; that the ...
... nature may have been . We are told that she indulged in reciting his poems praise ; that she retained his sister even to the latest moment of her life , and rewarded her with the last kind look and gift she had to bestow ; that the ...
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... nature seem to have induced him to press earnestly for his recall in this instance . He was aware that the party inimical to Cromwell was gaining an ascendency over the King , and he deemed it necessary to be upon the spot to defend ...
... nature seem to have induced him to press earnestly for his recall in this instance . He was aware that the party inimical to Cromwell was gaining an ascendency over the King , and he deemed it necessary to be upon the spot to defend ...
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