The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... kind a few fingle incidents are fet against the general tenour of behaviour . No man , however , can pay a more fervile tribute to the Great , than by fuffering his liberty in their prefence to aggrandize him in his own efteem . Between ...
... kind a few fingle incidents are fet against the general tenour of behaviour . No man , however , can pay a more fervile tribute to the Great , than by fuffering his liberty in their prefence to aggrandize him in his own efteem . Between ...
Pàgina 19
... kind , or by whose prudence , is not known ; and fuch was the increase of his reputation , that the Scottish " Nation applied again that he would be " their friend . " He was become fo formidable to the Whigs , that his familiarity with ...
... kind , or by whose prudence , is not known ; and fuch was the increase of his reputation , that the Scottish " Nation applied again that he would be " their friend . " He was become fo formidable to the Whigs , that his familiarity with ...
Pàgina 40
... kind of muddy complexion , which , though he washed himself with oriental fcrupulofity , did not look clear . He had a countenance four and fevere , which he seldom foftened by any appearance of gaiety . He ftubbornly refifted any ...
... kind of muddy complexion , which , though he washed himself with oriental fcrupulofity , did not look clear . He had a countenance four and fevere , which he seldom foftened by any appearance of gaiety . He ftubbornly refifted any ...
Pàgina 42
... kind of defiance which justly provokes the hoftility of ridicule ; he , there- fore , who indulges peculiar habits , is worfe than others , if he be not better . Of his humour , a ftory told by Pope * may afford a fpecimen . Dr. Swift ...
... kind of defiance which justly provokes the hoftility of ridicule ; he , there- fore , who indulges peculiar habits , is worfe than others , if he be not better . Of his humour , a ftory told by Pope * may afford a fpecimen . Dr. Swift ...
Pàgina 46
... his death ; charities , " from which he could enjoy no honour , advantage , or fatisfaction of any kind in this world : when you confider his ironical and homorous , as well σε " as k " as his serious schemes , for the promotion 46 SWIFT .
... his death ; charities , " from which he could enjoy no honour , advantage , or fatisfaction of any kind in this world : when you confider his ironical and homorous , as well σε " as k " as his serious schemes , for the promotion 46 SWIFT .
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