The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 30
... late . " She then gave up herself to forrowful refentment , and died under the tyranny of him , by whom he was in the highest degree loved and ho- noured . What were her claims to this excentrick tender- nefs , by which the laws of ...
... late . " She then gave up herself to forrowful refentment , and died under the tyranny of him , by whom he was in the highest degree loved and ho- noured . What were her claims to this excentrick tender- nefs , by which the laws of ...
Pàgina 52
... late com- pilation . He never rofe to a very high dignity in the Church . He was fome time rector of Sturfton in Suffolk , where he married a wealthy widow ; and afterwards , when the King vifited Cambridge ( 1728 ) became Doc- tor of ...
... late com- pilation . He never rofe to a very high dignity in the Church . He was fome time rector of Sturfton in Suffolk , where he married a wealthy widow ; and afterwards , when the King vifited Cambridge ( 1728 ) became Doc- tor of ...
Pàgina 76
... late each other in their encouragement of a poet who delighted all , and by whom none had been of- fended . With those hopes , he offered an English " Iliad " to fubfcribers , in fix volumes in quarto , for fix guineas ; a fum ...
... late each other in their encouragement of a poet who delighted all , and by whom none had been of- fended . With those hopes , he offered an English " Iliad " to fubfcribers , in fix volumes in quarto , for fix guineas ; a fum ...
Pàgina 84
... late Dr. Maty , repofited in the Museum . Between this manufcript , which is written upon accidental fragments of paper , and the printed edi- tion , thère muft have been an intermediate copy , that was perhaps deftroyed as it returned ...
... late Dr. Maty , repofited in the Museum . Between this manufcript , which is written upon accidental fragments of paper , and the printed edi- tion , thère muft have been an intermediate copy , that was perhaps deftroyed as it returned ...
Pàgina 110
... late flood of flander on himself , he had ac- quired fuch a peculiar right over their names as " was neceffary to this defign . " On the 12th of March , 1729 , at St. James's , " that poem was prefented to the King and Queen ( who had ...
... late flood of flander on himself , he had ac- quired fuch a peculiar right over their names as " was neceffary to this defign . " On the 12th of March , 1729 , at St. James's , " that poem was prefented to the King and Queen ( who had ...
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