The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 3
... fame purpose to the King . Swift , who probably was proud of his employment , and went with all the confidence of a young man , found his arguments , and his art of difplaying them , made totally ineffectual by the pre- deter- B 2 ...
... fame purpose to the King . Swift , who probably was proud of his employment , and went with all the confidence of a young man , found his arguments , and his art of difplaying them , made totally ineffectual by the pre- deter- B 2 ...
Pàgina 7
... fame house , nor did he fee either without a witness . They lived at the Parfonage , when Swift was away ; and , when he returned , removed to a lodging , or to the houfe of a neighbouring clergyman . Swift was not one of those minds ...
... fame house , nor did he fee either without a witness . They lived at the Parfonage , when Swift was away ; and , when he returned , removed to a lodging , or to the houfe of a neighbouring clergyman . Swift was not one of those minds ...
Pàgina 8
... fame queftion concern- ing the Ancients and Moderns had produced in France , that the improbability of fuch a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous proteftation prefixed , in ...
... fame queftion concern- ing the Ancients and Moderns had produced in France , that the improbability of fuch a coincidence of thoughts without communication is not , in my opinion , balanced by the anonymous proteftation prefixed , in ...
Pàgina 39
... fame time fince its firft erection . Of his choir he was eminently careful ; and , though he neither loved nor understood mufick , took care that all the fingers were well qualified , admitting none without the teftimony of skilful ...
... fame time fince its firft erection . Of his choir he was eminently careful ; and , though he neither loved nor understood mufick , took care that all the fingers were well qualified , admitting none without the teftimony of skilful ...
Pàgina 44
... fame tales too often . He did not , however , claim the right of talking alone ; for it was his rule , when he had spoken a minute , to give room by a pause for any other fpeaker . Of time , on all occafions , he was an exact computer ...
... fame tales too often . He did not , however , claim the right of talking alone ; for it was his rule , when he had spoken a minute , to give room by a pause for any other fpeaker . Of time , on all occafions , he was an exact computer ...
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