The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... easily collected , and possessed the power of re- ducing to order and system the scattered hints on any subject which he had gathered from different books . It would not perhaps be safe to claim for him the highest place , among his ...
... easily collected , and possessed the power of re- ducing to order and system the scattered hints on any subject which he had gathered from different books . It would not perhaps be safe to claim for him the highest place , among his ...
Pàgina xxiii
... kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered : and I am not with- out some suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Lang- xxiv ADVERTISEMENT . baine , as the best authority for.
... kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered : and I am not with- out some suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have followed Lang- xxiv ADVERTISEMENT . baine , as the best authority for.
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... easily believe to be and the early Christians ; the latter taking the New Testament for their oracle . However superstitious , this method of divination is still appealed to by numbers of religious enthusiasts . undissembled ; a man ...
... easily believe to be and the early Christians ; the latter taking the New Testament for their oracle . However superstitious , this method of divination is still appealed to by numbers of religious enthusiasts . undissembled ; a man ...
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... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon ob- tained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Albans and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon ob- tained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Albans and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
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... when the feuds of the civil war were yet re- cent , and the minds of either party were easily irri- tated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often un- satisfied COWLEY . 17.
... when the feuds of the civil war were yet re- cent , and the minds of either party were easily irri- tated , was obliged to pass over many transactions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often un- satisfied COWLEY . 17.
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