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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... fent age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was admitted into Weitminster - fchool , where he was foon diftin- guifhed . He was wont , fays Sprat , to ...
... fent age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was admitted into Weitminster - fchool , where he was foon diftin- guifhed . He was wont , fays Sprat , to ...
Pàgina 9
... fent back into England , that , " under pretence of pri- vacy and retirement , he might take occafion of " giving notice of the pofture of things in this " nation . " 66 Soon after his return to London , he was seized by fome meffengers ...
... fent back into England , that , " under pretence of pri- vacy and retirement , he might take occafion of " giving notice of the pofture of things in this " nation . " 66 Soon after his return to London , he was seized by fome meffengers ...
Pàgina 21
... fent , by their flender conceits and laboured parti- cularities , the profpects of nature , or the fcenes of life , than he , who diffects a fun - beam with a prifm , can exhibit the wide effulgence of a fum- mer noon . What they wanted ...
... fent , by their flender conceits and laboured parti- cularities , the profpects of nature , or the fcenes of life , than he , who diffects a fun - beam with a prifm , can exhibit the wide effulgence of a fum- mer noon . What they wanted ...
Pàgina 27
... fent from thee my heaven diffolved fo . On reading the following lines the reader may perhaps cry out - Confufion worfe confounded ! Here lies a fhe fun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both ...
... fent from thee my heaven diffolved fo . On reading the following lines the reader may perhaps cry out - Confufion worfe confounded ! Here lies a fhe fun , and a he moon here , She gives the best light to his sphere , Or each is both ...
Pàgina 68
... fent to Oxford , where he was confidered as a dreaming young man , given more to dice and cards than ftudy ; " and there- fore gave no prognofticks of his future eminence ; nor was fufpected to conceal , under fluggishness and laxity ...
... fent to Oxford , where he was confidered as a dreaming young man , given more to dice and cards than ftudy ; " and there- fore gave no prognofticks of his future eminence ; nor was fufpected to conceal , under fluggishness and laxity ...
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