The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Walker, Akerman, Edwards, 1821 |
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... pleasures of reading and thinking so vehement ( to which his facetious and unbended intervals bore no proportion ) , that the habit grew upon him , and the series of meditation and re- flection being kept up whole weeks together , he ...
... pleasures of reading and thinking so vehement ( to which his facetious and unbended intervals bore no proportion ) , that the habit grew upon him , and the series of meditation and re- flection being kept up whole weeks together , he ...
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... pleasure ; but his dress was always deficient ; scholastick cloudiness still hung about him ; and his merriment was sure to produce the scorn of his companions . With all his carelessness , and all his vices , he was one of the ...
... pleasure ; but his dress was always deficient ; scholastick cloudiness still hung about him ; and his merriment was sure to produce the scorn of his companions . With all his carelessness , and all his vices , he was one of the ...
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... pleasure . In the Library at Oxford is the following ludi- crous Analysis of Pocockius : EX AUTOGRAPHO . [ Sent by the Author to Mr. Urry . ] OPUSCULUM hoc , Halberdarie amplissime , in lucem proferre hactenus distuli , judicii tui acu ...
... pleasure . In the Library at Oxford is the following ludi- crous Analysis of Pocockius : EX AUTOGRAPHO . [ Sent by the Author to Mr. Urry . ] OPUSCULUM hoc , Halberdarie amplissime , in lucem proferre hactenus distuli , judicii tui acu ...
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... pleasures , and neglect of business , had now lessened his revenues ; and he was willing to accept of a settlement in Ireland , where , about 1702 , he was made judge of the ad- miralty , commissioner of the prizes , keeper of the ...
... pleasures , and neglect of business , had now lessened his revenues ; and he was willing to accept of a settlement in Ireland , where , about 1702 , he was made judge of the ad- miralty , commissioner of the prizes , keeper of the ...
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... pleasure from their revival ; to show them , as they have already been shown , is to disgust by repetition ; to give them new qualities , or new adventures , is to offend by violating received notions . The Royal Convert ( 1708 ) seems ...
... pleasure from their revival ; to show them , as they have already been shown , is to disgust by repetition ; to give them new qualities , or new adventures , is to offend by violating received notions . The Royal Convert ( 1708 ) seems ...
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