Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry: From Caedmon and King Alfred's Boethius to Browning and Tennyson, Volume 2Ward, 1873 - American poetry |
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... born 1756 , died 1780. This interesting and promising young man died of a decline in his twenty - fourth year . " - Campbell's " Specimens . " RICHARD JAGO . " Richard Jago , born 1715 , died 1781 , the author of Edge - Hill , ' a ...
... born 1756 , died 1780. This interesting and promising young man died of a decline in his twenty - fourth year . " - Campbell's " Specimens . " RICHARD JAGO . " Richard Jago , born 1715 , died 1781 , the author of Edge - Hill , ' a ...
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... born 1754 , died 1796 , ' was the younger brother of Sir Charles Bamp- fylde . He was educated at Cambridge , and published his Sonnets ' in 1776 , when very young . He soon after fell into mental de- rangement , and passed the last ...
... born 1754 , died 1796 , ' was the younger brother of Sir Charles Bamp- fylde . He was educated at Cambridge , and published his Sonnets ' in 1776 , when very young . He soon after fell into mental de- rangement , and passed the last ...
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... born a Whitehead and baptised a Paul . ' But though a libertine like Churchill , he seems not to have been the worse man of the two . Sir John Hawkins gives him the character of being good - hearted , even to sim- plicity ; and says ...
... born a Whitehead and baptised a Paul . ' But though a libertine like Churchill , he seems not to have been the worse man of the two . Sir John Hawkins gives him the character of being good - hearted , even to sim- plicity ; and says ...
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... Born 1699 , Died 1746 . Assumed a dye more deep ; whilst every flower Vied with its fellow plant in luxury Of dress- day -Oh ! then , the longest summer's Seem'd too , too much in haste : still the full heart Had not imparted half ...
... Born 1699 , Died 1746 . Assumed a dye more deep ; whilst every flower Vied with its fellow plant in luxury Of dress- day -Oh ! then , the longest summer's Seem'd too , too much in haste : still the full heart Had not imparted half ...
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... born joy grows vile , or disappears , Shrunk to a thing of nought . - Oh ! how he longs To have his passport sign'd , and be dis- miss'd ! ' Tis done ! and now he's happy ! The glad soul Has not a wish uncrown'd . Robert Blair . - Born ...
... born joy grows vile , or disappears , Shrunk to a thing of nought . - Oh ! how he longs To have his passport sign'd , and be dis- miss'd ! ' Tis done ! and now he's happy ! The glad soul Has not a wish uncrown'd . Robert Blair . - Born ...
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