The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... Learning ' - Publishes a Poem on Thomson's Death - Dies insane , and Buried in St. Andrew's Church , Chichester - Works and Character 488 JOHN DYER . - 1700-1758 . Second Son of Robert Dyer , of Aberglasney , in Caermarthenshire ...
... Learning ' - Publishes a Poem on Thomson's Death - Dies insane , and Buried in St. Andrew's Church , Chichester - Works and Character 488 JOHN DYER . - 1700-1758 . Second Son of Robert Dyer , of Aberglasney , in Caermarthenshire ...
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... learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence ...
... learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable pertinacity ; with wit in the highest degree keen and sarcastic ; and with all those powers exalted and invigorated by just confidence ...
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... learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an affected contempt of the ancients , and a super- cilious derision of transmitted knowledge . Of this indecent arro- gance the following quotation ...
... learning . By the transient glances which I have thrown upon them , I have observed an affected contempt of the ancients , and a super- cilious derision of transmitted knowledge . Of this indecent arro- gance the following quotation ...
Pàgina 45
... learning . " As for this book of aphorisms , it is like my Lord Bacon's of the same title , a book of jests , or a ... learning , though they knew I declared that I greatly honoured and esteemed all men of superior literature and ...
... learning . " As for this book of aphorisms , it is like my Lord Bacon's of the same title , a book of jests , or a ... learning , though they knew I declared that I greatly honoured and esteemed all men of superior literature and ...
Pàgina 85
... learning . He seems to have had no ambition above the imitation of Waller , of whom he has copied the faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with the puerilities of mythology ; his King is Jupiter , who , if the ...
... learning . He seems to have had no ambition above the imitation of Waller , of whom he has copied the faults , and very little more . He is for ever amusing himself with the puerilities of mythology ; his King is Jupiter , who , if the ...
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