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... poets seemed likely to become once more fashionable . His first essay , however , showed that he was not vates 2 in both senses of the 1 Introduction to the ' Lay of the Last Minstrel . ' 2 Vates in Latin means both a poet and a prophet ...
... poets seemed likely to become once more fashionable . His first essay , however , showed that he was not vates 2 in both senses of the 1 Introduction to the ' Lay of the Last Minstrel . ' 2 Vates in Latin means both a poet and a prophet ...
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... Poet Laureate , and thought that his appointment gave the government a claim to his services to aid it in discrediting and defeating so unworthy an intrigue ; and under this impression he , in 1681 , produced the satire of Absalom and ...
... Poet Laureate , and thought that his appointment gave the government a claim to his services to aid it in discrediting and defeating so unworthy an intrigue ; and under this impression he , in 1681 , produced the satire of Absalom and ...
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... poet of the day , being dictated by his own personal and weak jealousy of a crowd of inferior poets , whom some of his enemies had set up as his rivals , but whom it would have been more consistent with his own dignity , as well as with ...
... poet of the day , being dictated by his own personal and weak jealousy of a crowd of inferior poets , whom some of his enemies had set up as his rivals , but whom it would have been more consistent with his own dignity , as well as with ...
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... from its subject of " Alexander's Feast . " The poet himself was so confident of its merits that , according to a story related by Malone , and repeated 6 by Sir W. Scott , he affirmed on one occasion xiv INTRODUCTION .
... from its subject of " Alexander's Feast . " The poet himself was so confident of its merits that , according to a story related by Malone , and repeated 6 by Sir W. Scott , he affirmed on one occasion xiv INTRODUCTION .
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... poet . As he regards it , " the distinguishing characteristic of Dryden's genius seems to have been the power of reasoning , and of expressing the result in appropriate language . " ( Life , ' c . viii . ) Applying these descriptions of ...
... poet . As he regards it , " the distinguishing characteristic of Dryden's genius seems to have been the power of reasoning , and of expressing the result in appropriate language . " ( Life , ' c . viii . ) Applying these descriptions of ...
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