The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... elegance of language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of ...
... elegance of language have deservedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life , of ...
Pàgina 3
... elegance , of a particular provifion made by Nature for literary politenefs . But in the author's own honeft relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy to all constraint , that his " mafter never could prevail ...
... elegance , of a particular provifion made by Nature for literary politenefs . But in the author's own honeft relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy to all constraint , that his " mafter never could prevail ...
Pàgina 5
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindnefs and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whofe notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
... elegance of his conversation , that he gained the kindnefs and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whofe notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was ...
Pàgina 7
... elegance , and to have known that the bufinefs of a ftatesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe- torick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agi- ţation ; B 4 " The ...
... elegance , and to have known that the bufinefs of a ftatesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhe- torick . One paffage , however , feems not unworthy of fome notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agi- ţation ; B 4 " The ...
Pàgina 13
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with confcioufnefs not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
... elegance , accommodates the diction of Rome to his own conceptions . At the Restoration , after all the diligence of his long fervice , and with confcioufnefs not only of the merit of fidelity , but of the dignity of great abilities ...
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