The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... given many instances in his writ ings of a sincere and permanent affection . With the property he acquired with his wife , which is supposed to have amounted to about £ 800 , he attempted to establish a boarding school for young ...
... given many instances in his writ ings of a sincere and permanent affection . With the property he acquired with his wife , which is supposed to have amounted to about £ 800 , he attempted to establish a boarding school for young ...
Pàgina xvii
... given a true character in a Latin epitaph to be seen in the church - yard of Streatham . The history of Dr. Johnson from this period is a melancholy detail of affliction and sorrow . He began to feel the unavoidable calamities of old ...
... given a true character in a Latin epitaph to be seen in the church - yard of Streatham . The history of Dr. Johnson from this period is a melancholy detail of affliction and sorrow . He began to feel the unavoidable calamities of old ...
Pàgina xxiv
... VENS and other friends ; and great assistance has been given me by MR . SPENCE's Collections , of which I consider the communication as a favour worthy of public acknowledgment . LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS . COWLEY .
... VENS and other friends ; and great assistance has been given me by MR . SPENCE's Collections , of which I consider the communication as a favour worthy of public acknowledgment . LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS . COWLEY .
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... given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shown , confused and enlarged , through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in ...
... given the character , not the life , of Cowley ; for he writes with so little detail , that scarcely any thing is distinctly known , but all is shown , confused and enlarged , through the mist of panegyric . ABRAHAM COWLEY was born in ...
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... given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
... given such early proofs , not only of powers of lan- guage , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a volume of his poems was ...
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