The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 588 pàgines |
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... attention and enquiry , have gleaned many particulars , which would have diverfified and enlivened my Biography . These omiffions , which it is now use- lefs to lament , have been often fupplied by the kind- nefs of Mr. Steevens and ...
... attention and enquiry , have gleaned many particulars , which would have diverfified and enlivened my Biography . These omiffions , which it is now use- lefs to lament , have been often fupplied by the kind- nefs of Mr. Steevens and ...
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... attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loofe verte , but mere profe . It was printed , with a dedication in verfe to Dr. Comber , matter of the college ; but having neither the facility of a popular , nor the accuracy of a ...
... attention to the ancient models ; for it is not loofe verte , but mere profe . It was printed , with a dedication in verfe to Dr. Comber , matter of the college ; but having neither the facility of a popular , nor the accuracy of a ...
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... attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by obferving how unlikely it is that , having followed the royal family through all their diftreffes , " he fhould chufe the time ...
... attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of difaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by obferving how unlikely it is that , having followed the royal family through all their diftreffes , " he fhould chufe the time ...
Pàgina 53
... attention be often interefted in any thing that befalls them . To the fubject thus originally indifpofed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiofity ...
... attention be often interefted in any thing that befalls them . To the fubject thus originally indifpofed to the reception of poetical embellishments , the writer brought little that could reconcile impatience , or attract curiofity ...
Pàgina 55
... attention : He took for fkin a cloud moft foft and bright , That e'er the mid - day fun pierc'd through with light ; Upon his cheeks a lively blush he fpread , Wath'd from the morning beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flattering ...
... attention : He took for fkin a cloud moft foft and bright , That e'er the mid - day fun pierc'd through with light ; Upon his cheeks a lively blush he fpread , Wath'd from the morning beauties ' deepest red ; An harmless flattering ...
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