The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... genius , and as patient of being excelled himself ( if any could excel him ) as industrious to excel others . ' Twere to be wished he had confined himself to a particular profession , who was capable of sur- passing in any ; but , in ...
... genius , and as patient of being excelled himself ( if any could excel him ) as industrious to excel others . ' Twere to be wished he had confined himself to a particular profession , who was capable of sur- passing in any ; but , in ...
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... genius for Latin lyrick since the Augustan age . His friend Mr. Philips's ode to Mr. St. John ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) , after the manner of Horace's Lusory , or Amatorian Odes , is certainly a master- piece ; but Mr. Smith's Pocockius ...
... genius for Latin lyrick since the Augustan age . His friend Mr. Philips's ode to Mr. St. John ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) , after the manner of Horace's Lusory , or Amatorian Odes , is certainly a master- piece ; but Mr. Smith's Pocockius ...
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... genius had begun . SUCH is the declamation of Oldisworth , written while his admiration was yet fresh , and his kindness warm ; and therefore such as , without any criminal purpose of deceiving , shows a strong desire to make the most ...
... genius had begun . SUCH is the declamation of Oldisworth , written while his admiration was yet fresh , and his kindness warm ; and therefore such as , without any criminal purpose of deceiving , shows a strong desire to make the most ...
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... genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him : he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at the instance of all the canons , the sentence declared five years before ...
... genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him : he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at the instance of all the canons , the sentence declared five years before ...
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... genius of that excellent poet who made this way of writing free of our nation , " and being " so little equal and proportioned to the renown of a prince on whom they were written ; such great actions and lives deserving to be the sub ...
... genius of that excellent poet who made this way of writing free of our nation , " and being " so little equal and proportioned to the renown of a prince on whom they were written ; such great actions and lives deserving to be the sub ...
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