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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... poet , Chaucer not excepted , whose works may be read at the present day without disgust . He is also the first of our poets who attempted a great variety of metre ; in this attempt for a beginner he was eminently successful , and has ...
... poet , Chaucer not excepted , whose works may be read at the present day without disgust . He is also the first of our poets who attempted a great variety of metre ; in this attempt for a beginner he was eminently successful , and has ...
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... poet and excellent states- man , though not a native of Kent , yet demands in this place , an ample notice ; being the first of an illustrious line , who have for more than two centuries , honoured that county by selecting it as their ...
... poet and excellent states- man , though not a native of Kent , yet demands in this place , an ample notice ; being the first of an illustrious line , who have for more than two centuries , honoured that county by selecting it as their ...
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... poet , who descends like Dante , into hell , and is conducted by sorrow . Every personage was to recite his own misfor- tunes , in a soliloquy . But he had leisure only to finish a poetical preface called an Induction , and one legend ...
... poet , who descends like Dante , into hell , and is conducted by sorrow . Every personage was to recite his own misfor- tunes , in a soliloquy . But he had leisure only to finish a poetical preface called an Induction , and one legend ...
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... poet was soon lost in the statesman , and negociations and embassies extinguished the milder ambitions of the ingenious muse . He He sat in parliament during the reign of Queen Mary , and was returned one of the members for Buckingham ...
... poet was soon lost in the statesman , and negociations and embassies extinguished the milder ambitions of the ingenious muse . He He sat in parliament during the reign of Queen Mary , and was returned one of the members for Buckingham ...
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... poet has sought the fields , -night approaches " with misty mantle spread , " the sun sets , the moon and stars appear . The Poet , from the scene around him , is led to meditate upon the mutability of human affairs . From generalising ...
... poet has sought the fields , -night approaches " with misty mantle spread , " the sun sets , the moon and stars appear . The Poet , from the scene around him , is led to meditate upon the mutability of human affairs . From generalising ...
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