The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of these titles ; but others , who knew him better , could not forbear doing him justice as a prodigy in both kinds . He had signalized ...
... pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of these titles ; but others , who knew him better , could not forbear doing him justice as a prodigy in both kinds . He had signalized ...
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... pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success ...
... pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success ...
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... pleased with the contradiction of a shop- man , and boastful of his own knowledge , treated the notice with rude contempt , and swallowed his own medicine , which , in July , 1710 , brought him to the grave . He was buried at Gartham ...
... pleased with the contradiction of a shop- man , and boastful of his own knowledge , treated the notice with rude contempt , and swallowed his own medicine , which , in July , 1710 , brought him to the grave . He was buried at Gartham ...
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... pleased as when Mr. Rowe was in his company . After the duke's death , all avenues were stopped to his preferment ; and , during the rest of that reign , he passed his time with the Muses and his books , and sometimes the conversation ...
... pleased as when Mr. Rowe was in his company . After the duke's death , all avenues were stopped to his preferment ; and , during the rest of that reign , he passed his time with the Muses and his books , and sometimes the conversation ...
Pàgina 89
... pleased Addison , who , when he dismissed him from the club , changed his opinions . Steele had made him , in the true spi- rit of unfeeling commerce , declare that he " would not build an hospital for idle people ; " but at last he ...
... pleased Addison , who , when he dismissed him from the club , changed his opinions . Steele had made him , in the true spi- rit of unfeeling commerce , declare that he " would not build an hospital for idle people ; " but at last he ...
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