The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 2
... whose abilities have been made for a time useless by their paffions or pleasures , and who , having loft one part of life in idlenefs , are tempted to throw away the remainder in despair . In this courfe of daily application he ...
... whose abilities have been made for a time useless by their paffions or pleasures , and who , having loft one part of life in idlenefs , are tempted to throw away the remainder in despair . In this courfe of daily application he ...
Pàgina 7
... whose name was Johnson , the daughter of the steward of Sir William Temple , who , in confideration of her father's virtues , left her a thousand pounds . With her came Mrs. Dingley , whose whole fortune was twenty - feven pounds a year ...
... whose name was Johnson , the daughter of the steward of Sir William Temple , who , in confideration of her father's virtues , left her a thousand pounds . With her came Mrs. Dingley , whose whole fortune was twenty - feven pounds a year ...
Pàgina 10
... whose kindness it is not unlikely that he was advanced to his benefices . To this project , which is formed with great purity of intention , and displayed with sprightliness and elegance , it can only be objected , that , like many ...
... whose kindness it is not unlikely that he was advanced to his benefices . To this project , which is formed with great purity of intention , and displayed with sprightliness and elegance , it can only be objected , that , like many ...
Pàgina 19
... 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 the ...
... 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 the ...
Pàgina 27
... whose conver- fation was to him the great foftener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to de- cline ; and two years afterwards was fo wafted with fickness , that her recovery was confidered as hope- lefs ...
... whose conver- fation was to him the great foftener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to de- cline ; and two years afterwards was fo wafted with fickness , that her recovery was confidered as hope- lefs ...
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