The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... mean and trifling , that , like the junior compositions of Mr. Stepney , they may make gray authors blush . There are many of his first essays in oratory , in epigram , elegy , and epique , still handed about the university in manu ...
... mean and trifling , that , like the junior compositions of Mr. Stepney , they may make gray authors blush . There are many of his first essays in oratory , in epigram , elegy , and epique , still handed about the university in manu ...
Pàgina 7
... means he seemed to read with a design to correct , as well as imitate . Being thus prepared , he could not but taste every little delicacy that was set before him ; though it was impossible for him at the same time to be fed and ...
... means he seemed to read with a design to correct , as well as imitate . Being thus prepared , he could not but taste every little delicacy that was set before him ; though it was impossible for him at the same time to be fed and ...
Pàgina 55
... mean enough to solicit their pa- tronage , by betraying to them the counsels of the college . The greater part , however , enforced by a new edict , in 1694 , the former order of 1687 , and sent it to the mayor and aldermen , who ap ...
... mean enough to solicit their pa- tronage , by betraying to them the counsels of the college . The greater part , however , enforced by a new edict , in 1694 , the former order of 1687 , and sent it to the mayor and aldermen , who ap ...
Pàgina 58
... below mediocrity , and few rise much above it . The plan seems formed without just proportion to the subject ; the means and end have no necessary connexion . Resnel , in his preface to Pope's Essay , remarks , that 58 GARTH .
... below mediocrity , and few rise much above it . The plan seems formed without just proportion to the subject ; the means and end have no necessary connexion . Resnel , in his preface to Pope's Essay , remarks , that 58 GARTH .
Pàgina 76
... ing - green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean because * He took the degree of M. A. February 14 , 1693 . nothing is familiar , affords great conveniences ; and , 76 ADDISON .
... ing - green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean because * He took the degree of M. A. February 14 , 1693 . nothing is familiar , affords great conveniences ; and , 76 ADDISON .
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