The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... once than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little me- morials as accident has enabled me to collect . Mr. EDMUND SMITH was the only son of an eminent merchant , one Mr. Neale , by a daughter of the famous Baron Lechmere . Some ...
... once than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little me- morials as accident has enabled me to collect . Mr. EDMUND SMITH was the only son of an eminent merchant , one Mr. Neale , by a daughter of the famous Baron Lechmere . Some ...
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... once commended and reproved him by the name of the handsome sloven . An eager but generous and noble emula- tion grew up with him ; which ( as it were a rational sort of instinct ) pushed him upon striving to excel in every art and ...
... once commended and reproved him by the name of the handsome sloven . An eager but generous and noble emula- tion grew up with him ; which ( as it were a rational sort of instinct ) pushed him upon striving to excel in every art and ...
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... once adorn and defend the Christian hero , and equip him for the combat . Mr. Smith had a long and perfect intimacy with all the Greek and Latin classicks ; with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth pe- rusing in the French ...
... once adorn and defend the Christian hero , and equip him for the combat . Mr. Smith had a long and perfect intimacy with all the Greek and Latin classicks ; with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth pe- rusing in the French ...
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... once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . 1 But he was still a 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 ...
... once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . 1 But he was still a 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 ...
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... once a design to have written the tragedy of Phædra ; but was convinced that the action was too mythological . In 1709 , a year after the exhibition of Phædra , died John Philips , the friend and fellow - collegian of Smith , who , on ...
... once a design to have written the tragedy of Phædra ; but was convinced that the action was too mythological . In 1709 , a year after the exhibition of Phædra , died John Philips , the friend and fellow - collegian of Smith , who , on ...
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