The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgement , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fine- ness and distinguishing sagacity , which as it was active and busy , so it was virgorous and ...
... favour with this age , and so good a proof of its nice discernment . His judgement , naturally good , soon ripened into an exquisite fine- ness and distinguishing sagacity , which as it was active and busy , so it was virgorous and ...
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... favours she flung in his way when offered to him at a price of a more durable reputation . He took care to have no dealings with mankind , in which he could not be just ; and he desired to be at no other ex- pense in his pretensions ...
... favours she flung in his way when offered to him at a price of a more durable reputation . He took care to have no dealings with mankind , in which he could not be just ; and he desired to be at no other ex- pense in his pretensions ...
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... favour . Whatever quarrel a few sour creatures , whose obscurity is their hap- piness , may possibly have to the age ; yet amidst a studied neglect , and total disuse of all those cere- monial attendances , fashionable equipments , and ...
... favour . Whatever quarrel a few sour creatures , whose obscurity is their hap- piness , may possibly have to the age ; yet amidst a studied neglect , and total disuse of all those cere- monial attendances , fashionable equipments , and ...
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... was brought before them , gave his voice in his favour . Thus far he suffered interest or obedience to carry him ; but further he refused to go . When he found that the powers of the ecclesiastical com- mission 38 SPRAT .
... was brought before them , gave his voice in his favour . Thus far he suffered interest or obedience to carry him ; but further he refused to go . When he found that the powers of the ecclesiastical com- mission 38 SPRAT .
Pàgina 39
... favour of his old master . He complied , however , with the new establish- ment , and was left unmolested ; but , in 1692 , a strange attack was made upon him by one Robert Young and Stephen Blackhead , both men convicted of infamous ...
... favour of his old master . He complied , however , with the new establish- ment , and was left unmolested ; but , in 1692 , a strange attack was made upon him by one Robert Young and Stephen Blackhead , both men convicted of infamous ...
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