The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... Fortune threw him short of it in every other circumstance of life . He avoided making any , though perhaps reasonable , complaints of her dispensations , under which he had honour enough to be easy , without touching the favours she ...
... Fortune threw him short of it in every other circumstance of life . He avoided making any , though perhaps reasonable , complaints of her dispensations , under which he had honour enough to be easy , without touching the favours she ...
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... fortune is wanting to make a great name , that single exception can never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our de ...
... fortune is wanting to make a great name , that single exception can never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our de ...
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... fortune of the stage , with the story of Lady Jane Grey . It is not un- likely that his experience of the inefficacy and in- credibility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from English history , at no great ...
... fortune of the stage , with the story of Lady Jane Grey . It is not un- likely that his experience of the inefficacy and in- credibility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from English history , at no great ...
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... Fortune ; and won- dered why he was suffered to be poor , when Addi- son was caressed and preferred ; nor would a very little have contented him ; for he estimated his wants at six hundred pounds a year . In his course of reading , it ...
... Fortune ; and won- dered why he was suffered to be poor , when Addi- son was caressed and preferred ; nor would a very little have contented him ; for he estimated his wants at six hundred pounds a year . In his course of reading , it ...
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... fortune . In 1688 , the same year in which he was made master of arts , he published a confutation of Va- rillas's account of Wickliffe ; and , engaging in the study of the civil law , became doctor in 1692 , and was admitted advocate ...
... fortune . In 1688 , the same year in which he was made master of arts , he published a confutation of Va- rillas's account of Wickliffe ; and , engaging in the study of the civil law , became doctor in 1692 , and was admitted advocate ...
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