The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But , if The Old Bachelor be more nearly examined , it will be found to ...
... knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But , if The Old Bachelor be more nearly examined , it will be found to ...
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... knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But , if The Old Bachelor be more nearly examined , it will be found to ...
... knowledge of many characters , and exact observation of the passing world ; the difficulty therefore is , to conceive how this knowledge can be obtained by a boy . But , if The Old Bachelor be more nearly examined , it will be found to ...
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... knowledge , and a great felicity in finding out trifles . He is no less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects ; and takes more pleasure in commending the beauties , than ...
... knowledge , and a great felicity in finding out trifles . He is no less industrious to search out the merit of an author , than sagacious in discerning his errors and defects ; and takes more pleasure in commending the beauties , than ...
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... knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from his preface to the treatise on the smallpox will afford a specimen ; in which , when the reader finds , what I fear is true , that , when he was censuring Hippocrates ...
... knowledge . Of this indecent arrogance the following quotation from his preface to the treatise on the smallpox will afford a specimen ; in which , when the reader finds , what I fear is true , that , when he was censuring Hippocrates ...
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... knowledge , his mind was stored with general principles , and he left minute researches to those whom he considered as little minds . With this disposition he wrote most of his poems . Hav- ing formed a magnificent design , he was ...
... knowledge , his mind was stored with general principles , and he left minute researches to those whom he considered as little minds . With this disposition he wrote most of his poems . Hav- ing formed a magnificent design , he was ...
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