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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... hope , by the honeft defire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of Hiftory , the fucceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have ...
... hope , by the honeft defire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of Hiftory , the fucceffion of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without fufpicion that fome of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have ...
Pàgina 1
... whom Wood reprefents as ftruggling carneftly to procure him a literary education , and who , as fhe lived to the age of eighty , had her folicitude rewarded by VOL . I. feeing B feeing her fon eminent , and , I hope , ( I )
... whom Wood reprefents as ftruggling carneftly to procure him a literary education , and who , as fhe lived to the age of eighty , had her folicitude rewarded by VOL . I. feeing B feeing her fon eminent , and , I hope , ( I )
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... hope , by feeing him fortunate , and partaking his profperity . We know at leaft , from Sprat's account , that he al- ways acknowledged her care , and juftly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
... hope , by feeing him fortunate , and partaking his profperity . We know at leaft , from Sprat's account , that he al- ways acknowledged her care , and juftly paid the dues of filial gratitude . In the window of his mother's apartment ...
Pàgina 7
... hope , or the gloominefs of despair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fometimes in gems last- ing as her virtues . At Paris , as fecretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in ...
... hope , or the gloominefs of despair ; and dreffes his imaginary Chloris or Phyllis fometimes in flowers fading as her beauty , and fometimes in gems last- ing as her virtues . At Paris , as fecretary to Lord Jermyn , he was engaged in ...
Pàgina 13
... hope , that great numbers were inevitably difappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tedioufly . delayed . He had been promifed , by both Charles the Firft and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he loft it , fays Wood ...
... hope , that great numbers were inevitably difappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tedioufly . delayed . He had been promifed , by both Charles the Firft and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ; " but he loft it , fays Wood ...
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