The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... firft fond- ness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was admitted into Weftminster - fchool , where he was foon diftinguished . He was wont , fays Sprat , to relate , " That he ...
... firft fond- ness for his art excited by the perufal of Richardfon's treatise . By his mother's folicitation he was admitted into Weftminster - fchool , where he was foon diftinguished . He was wont , fays Sprat , to relate , " That he ...
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... firft paffage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his eye on . It is faid , that king Charles I. and Lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this experiment of their future fortunes , and met with paffages ...
... firft paffage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his eye on . It is faid , that king Charles I. and Lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this experiment of their future fortunes , and met with paffages ...
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... Firft and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ; but he loft it , " fays Wood , " by certain perfons , enemies to the Muses . " The neglect of the court was not his only morti- fication ; having , by such alteration as he thought proper ...
... Firft and Second , the Mastership of the Savoy ; but he loft it , " fays Wood , " by certain perfons , enemies to the Muses . " The neglect of the court was not his only morti- fication ; having , by such alteration as he thought proper ...
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... firft to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertfey , in Surrey . He seems , however , to have loft part of his dread of the bum of men . He thought himself now safe enough from intrufion , without the defence of moun- tains and oceans ...
... firft to Barn - elms , and afterwards to Chertfey , in Surrey . He seems , however , to have loft part of his dread of the bum of men . He thought himself now safe enough from intrufion , without the defence of moun- tains and oceans ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. at firft but flenderly accommodated ; yet he foon ob- tained , by the intereft of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , fuch a leafe of the Queen's lands as ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. at firft but flenderly accommodated ; yet he foon ob- tained , by the intereft of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , fuch a leafe of the Queen's lands as ...
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