The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... expected the author with his book , and had prepared to reward him with a place of three hundred pounds a year . Smith , by pride , or caprice , or indolence , or bashfulness , neglected to attend him , though doubtless warned and ...
... expected the author with his book , and had prepared to reward him with a place of three hundred pounds a year . Smith , by pride , or caprice , or indolence , or bashfulness , neglected to attend him , though doubtless warned and ...
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... expected . There is in his few productions no want of such conceits as he thought excellent ; and of those our judgement may be settled by the first that appears in his praise of Cromwell , where he says , that Cromwell's " fame , like ...
... expected . There is in his few productions no want of such conceits as he thought excellent ; and of those our judgement may be settled by the first that appears in his praise of Cromwell , where he says , that Cromwell's " fame , like ...
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... expected may properly be proportioned not to his influence in the state , but to his rank among the writers of verse . Charles Montague was born April 16 , 1661 , at Horton , in Northamptonshire , the son of Mr. George Montague , a ...
... expected may properly be proportioned not to his influence in the state , but to his rank among the writers of verse . Charles Montague was born April 16 , 1661 , at Horton , in Northamptonshire , the son of Mr. George Montague , a ...
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... expected , that the apothecaries would have undertaken the care of providing medicines ; but they took another course . Thinking the whole design pernicious to their interest , they endeavoured to raise a faction against it in the ...
... expected , that the apothecaries would have undertaken the care of providing medicines ; but they took another course . Thinking the whole design pernicious to their interest , they endeavoured to raise a faction against it in the ...
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... expected it ; yet , I believe , those who compare it with former copies will find that he has done more than he promised ; and that , without the pomp of notes or boasts of criticism , many passages are happily restored . He prefixed a ...
... expected it ; yet , I believe , those who compare it with former copies will find that he has done more than he promised ; and that , without the pomp of notes or boasts of criticism , many passages are happily restored . He prefixed a ...
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