The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... excellence , seldom employed to any virtuous pur- pose . His character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to show " what fine things one man of parts can say of another ...
... excellence , seldom employed to any virtuous pur- pose . His character , as given by Mr. Oldisworth , with all the partiality of friendship , which is said by Dr. Burton to show " what fine things one man of parts can say of another ...
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... excellence was not sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who advanced the price from fifty guineas , the current rate , to sixty ; and Halifax , the general patron , accepted the dedication ...
... excellence was not sufficient for its own support . The play , however , was bought by Lintot , who advanced the price from fifty guineas , the current rate , to sixty ; and Halifax , the general patron , accepted the dedication ...
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... excellence . My business is only with his poems . He con- sidered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that , as he was imitated , perfection was approached . No- thing , therefore , but Pindarick liberty was to be expected . There is in ...
... excellence . My business is only with his poems . He con- sidered Cowley as a model ; and supposed that , as he was imitated , perfection was approached . No- thing , therefore , but Pindarick liberty was to be expected . There is in ...
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... scholars to let their powers lie useless ; and his exercises in several languages are * In the Villare , Lamerton . † He was not elected till 1688 . said to have been written with uncommon degrees of excellence 60 ROWE.
... scholars to let their powers lie useless ; and his exercises in several languages are * In the Villare , Lamerton . † He was not elected till 1688 . said to have been written with uncommon degrees of excellence 60 ROWE.
Pàgina 61
... excellence , and yet to have cost him very little labour . At sixteen he had , in his father's opinion , made advances in learning sufficient to qualify him for the study of law , and was entered a student of the Middle Temple , where ...
... excellence , and yet to have cost him very little labour . At sixteen he had , in his father's opinion , made advances in learning sufficient to qualify him for the study of law , and was entered a student of the Middle Temple , where ...
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