The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... performances , that there arose no small contention , between the representative electors of Trinity- college in Cambridge and Christ - church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the electors ...
... performances , that there arose no small contention , between the representative electors of Trinity- college in Cambridge and Christ - church in Oxon , which of those two royal societies should adopt him as their own . But the electors ...
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... performance . The praise is often indistinct , and the sentences are loaded with words of more pomp than use . There is little , however , that can be contradicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . EDMUND NEALE , known by ...
... performance . The praise is often indistinct , and the sentences are loaded with words of more pomp than use . There is little , however , that can be contradicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . EDMUND NEALE , known by ...
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... performance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it was a very profitable poem . Of his Pindar mentioned by Oldisworth , I have never otherwise ...
... performance has its faults . This elegy it was the mode among his friends to purchase for a guinea ; and , as his acquaintance was numerous , it was a very profitable poem . Of his Pindar mentioned by Oldisworth , I have never otherwise ...
Pàgina 38
... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to the King , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ; and , the year afterwards , received the last ...
... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to the King , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ; and , the year afterwards , received the last ...
Pàgina 47
... performances which gra- titude forbids us to blame , affectation will easily dispose us to exalt . To these prejudices , hardly culpable , interest adds a power always operating , though not always , because not willingly , perceived ...
... performances which gra- titude forbids us to blame , affectation will easily dispose us to exalt . To these prejudices , hardly culpable , interest adds a power always operating , though not always , because not willingly , perceived ...
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