The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen any . thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and surprising turns peculiar to the person praised . I do not remember to have seen any . thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made some ...
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... kind was so well known and allowed , that he had been singled out by some great men to write a history ; which it was for their interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design ...
... kind was so well known and allowed , that he had been singled out by some great men to write a history ; which it was for their interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design ...
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... kind I could ever hope for in our own lan- guage . He had drawn out a plan of a tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I ...
... kind I could ever hope for in our own lan- guage . He had drawn out a plan of a tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I ...
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... kind seldom live long , when interest and resentment have ceased . : In 1697 , he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what wit could perform in opposition to learning , on a question ...
... kind seldom live long , when interest and resentment have ceased . : In 1697 , he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what wit could perform in opposition to learning , on a question ...
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... to Sorbiere , The History of the Rye - house Plot , The Relation of his own Exa- mination , and a volume of Sermons . I have heard it observed , with great justness , that every book is of a different kind , and that each has its SFRAT .
... to Sorbiere , The History of the Rye - house Plot , The Relation of his own Exa- mination , and a volume of Sermons . I have heard it observed , with great justness , that every book is of a different kind , and that each has its SFRAT .
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