The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... fays Sprat , to relate , " That he had " this defect in his memory at that time , that his " teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary " rules of grammar . " This is an inftance of the natural defire of man to propagate a ...
... fays Sprat , to relate , " That he had " this defect in his memory at that time , that his " teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary " rules of grammar . " This is an inftance of the natural defire of man to propagate a ...
Pàgina 4
... fays was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the fcholars . That this comedy was printed during his abfence from his country , he appears to have confidered as injurious to his repu- tation ; though ...
... fays was neither written nor acted , but rough - drawn by him , and repeated by the fcholars . That this comedy was printed during his abfence from his country , he appears to have confidered as injurious to his repu- tation ; though ...
Pàgina 7
... 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 66 " The Scotch treaty , " fays he , COWLEY . 7.
... 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 66 " The Scotch treaty , " fays he , COWLEY . 7.
Pàgina 8
... fays he , " is the only thing 66 now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one " of the laft hopers , and yet cannot now abftain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all " people upon the place incline to that of union ...
... fays he , " is the only thing 66 now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one " of the laft hopers , and yet cannot now abftain from believing that an agreement will be made ; all " people upon the place incline to that of union ...
Pàgina 9
... books : and says , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rabbins , and even the early Christians ; the latter taking the New Testament for their oracle . H. Some Some years afterwards , " bufinefs , " fays Sprat COWLEY .
... books : and says , that it was used by the Pagans , the Jewish Rabbins , and even the early Christians ; the latter taking the New Testament for their oracle . H. Some Some years afterwards , " bufinefs , " fays Sprat COWLEY .
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