The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... fuch " an enemy to all constraint , that his " mafter never could prevail on him to learn the " rules without book . " He does not tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , being able to perform his exercifes without them ...
... fuch " an enemy to all constraint , that his " mafter never could prevail on him to learn the " rules without book . " He does not tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , being able to perform his exercifes without them ...
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... fuch * By May's Poem we are here to understand a continuation of Lucan's Pharfalia to the death of Julius Cæfar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and hiftorian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a life is ...
... fuch * By May's Poem we are here to understand a continuation of Lucan's Pharfalia to the death of Julius Cæfar , by Thomas May , an eminent poet and hiftorian , who flourished in the reigns of James and Charles I. and of whom a life is ...
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... fuch a leafe of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be foli- citoufly afked , if he now was happy . Let them perufe one of his letters accidentally preferved by Peck , which I ...
... fuch a leafe of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be foli- citoufly afked , if he now was happy . Let them perufe one of his letters accidentally preferved by Peck , which I ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. know their value ; and fuch as , when they are ex- panded to perfpicuity , and polifhed to elegance , may give luftre to works which have more propriety though lefs copioufnefs of ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. know their value ; and fuch as , when they are ex- panded to perfpicuity , and polifhed to elegance , may give luftre to works which have more propriety though lefs copioufnefs of ...
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... fuch virtues as a ftudious privacy ad- mits , and fuch intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can difplay . He knew how to diftinguish , and how to commend , the quali- h ties of his companion ; but , when he ...
... fuch virtues as a ftudious privacy ad- mits , and fuch intellectual excellence as a mind not yet called forth to action can difplay . He knew how to diftinguish , and how to commend , the quali- h ties of his companion ; but , when he ...
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