The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 2
... favour ; a term used in that univerfity to denote want of merit . Of this difgrace it may be eafily fuppofed that he was much afhamed , and fhame had its proper effect in producing reformation . He refolved from that time to ftudy eight ...
... favour ; a term used in that univerfity to denote want of merit . Of this difgrace it may be eafily fuppofed that he was much afhamed , and fhame had its proper effect in producing reformation . He refolved from that time to ftudy eight ...
Pàgina 63
... favour as enraged Den- nis , " who , " he says , " found himself attacked , with- " out any manner of provocation on his fide , and at- " tacked in his perfon , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a ftranger to him , at a ...
... favour as enraged Den- nis , " who , " he says , " found himself attacked , with- " out any manner of provocation on his fide , and at- " tacked in his perfon , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a ftranger to him , at a ...
Pàgina 68
... favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having difcovered the correfpondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady determined to abide by her own choice , he fuppofed that feparation might do what can rarely be ...
... favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having difcovered the correfpondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady determined to abide by her own choice , he fuppofed that feparation might do what can rarely be ...
Pàgina 75
... favour of the publick extended , by foliciting a fubfcription to a version of the " Iliad , " with large notes . To print by fubfcription was , for fome time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first confide- rable work , for ...
... favour of the publick extended , by foliciting a fubfcription to a version of the " Iliad , " with large notes . To print by fubfcription was , for fome time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first confide- rable work , for ...
Pàgina 76
... favoured . * Earlier than this , viz . in 1688 , Milton's " Paradise Loft " had been published with great fuccefs by fubfcription , in folio , under the patronage of Mr. ( afterwards Lord ) Somers . The greatnefs of the defign , the ...
... favoured . * Earlier than this , viz . in 1688 , Milton's " Paradise Loft " had been published with great fuccefs by fubfcription , in folio , under the patronage of Mr. ( afterwards Lord ) Somers . The greatnefs of the defign , the ...
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