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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... YOUNG . • He In Edward Young , born 1681 , died 1765. " I now come , " says Shaw , in his ' Hist . Eng . Lit . , ' " to Edward Young , the most powerful of the secondary poets of the epoch . began his career in the unsuccessful pursuit ...
... YOUNG . • He In Edward Young , born 1681 , died 1765. " I now come , " says Shaw , in his ' Hist . Eng . Lit . , ' " to Edward Young , the most powerful of the secondary poets of the epoch . began his career in the unsuccessful pursuit ...
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... young , and executed a number of forgeries almost without parallel for ingenuity and variety . The writings which he passed off as originals he professes to have discovered in Cannynge's Coffre , ' a chest preserved in the muniment ...
... young , and executed a number of forgeries almost without parallel for ingenuity and variety . The writings which he passed off as originals he professes to have discovered in Cannynge's Coffre , ' a chest preserved in the muniment ...
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... 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 descriptive poem , was vicar of Snitterfield , near ...
... 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 descriptive poem , was vicar of Snitterfield , near ...
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... Young and unthoughtful then ; who knows , one day , What ripening virtues might have made their way ! He might have lived till folly died in shame , Till kindling wisdom felt a thirst for fame . He might perhaps his country's friend ...
... Young and unthoughtful then ; who knows , one day , What ripening virtues might have made their way ! He might have lived till folly died in shame , Till kindling wisdom felt a thirst for fame . He might perhaps his country's friend ...
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... Young . - Born 1681 , Died 1765 . 856. - ON LIFE , DEATH , AND IMMOR- TALITY . Tired Nature's sweet restorer , balmy Sleep ! He , like the world , his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he for- sakes : Swift on his ...
... Young . - Born 1681 , Died 1765 . 856. - ON LIFE , DEATH , AND IMMOR- TALITY . Tired Nature's sweet restorer , balmy Sleep ! He , like the world , his ready visit pays Where Fortune smiles ; the wretched he for- sakes : Swift on his ...
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