The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... able to copy after him ; and his talent in this kind was so well known and allowed , that he had been singled out by some great men to write a history ; which it was for their interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I ...
... able to copy after him ; and his talent in this kind was so well known and allowed , that he had been singled out by some great men to write a history ; which it was for their interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I ...
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... able employments ; but , as they could not deprive him of any real esteem , they left him many friends ; and no man was ever better introduced to the the- atre than he , who , in that violent conflict of parties , had a prologue and ...
... able employments ; but , as they could not deprive him of any real esteem , they left him many friends ; and no man was ever better introduced to the the- atre than he , who , in that violent conflict of parties , had a prologue and ...
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... able to name a man of equal knowledge . His ac- quaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know , he could at least tell where to find . Such was his amplitude of learning , and such his copiousness of ...
... able to name a man of equal knowledge . His ac- quaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know , he could at least tell where to find . Such was his amplitude of learning , and such his copiousness of ...
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... able to preserve , though written upon a subject flux and transitory . The History of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wish to know what they were then doing , but how their Trans- actions are exhibited by Sprat . In the ...
... able to preserve , though written upon a subject flux and transitory . The History of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wish to know what they were then doing , but how their Trans- actions are exhibited by Sprat . In the ...
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... able to deny what he is angry to hear , and loth to confess . Pope afterwards declared himself convinced , that Garth died in the communion of the church of Rome , having been privately reconciled . It is observed by Lowth , that there ...
... able to deny what he is angry to hear , and loth to confess . Pope afterwards declared himself convinced , that Garth died in the communion of the church of Rome , having been privately reconciled . It is observed by Lowth , that there ...
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