The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... tion I have not feen . This was tranfcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and un- foreseen , I must be fuppofed to have engaged in it with lefs provifion of materials than might have been ...
... tion I have not feen . This was tranfcribed for the prefs from his own manufcript . As this undertaking was occafional and un- foreseen , I must be fuppofed to have engaged in it with lefs provifion of materials than might have been ...
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... , during the fuppreffion of the * He was a candidate this year at Westminster - school for elec- tion to Trinity - college , but proved unfuccefsful . N. theatres , theatres , it was fometimes privately acted with fuffi- cient 4 COWLEY .
... , during the fuppreffion of the * He was a candidate this year at Westminster - school for elec- tion to Trinity - college , but proved unfuccefsful . N. theatres , theatres , it was fometimes privately acted with fuffi- cient 4 COWLEY .
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... tion . " He continued , " fays his biographer , " under " these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be fuppofed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the King , without the con- fent of his bondfman ...
... tion . " He continued , " fays his biographer , " under " these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be fuppofed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the King , without the con- fent of his bondfman ...
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... tion . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly er- roneous : he depreffes it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from ftrength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be ...
... tion . But Pope's account of wit is undoubtedly er- roneous : he depreffes it below its natural dignity , and reduces it from ftrength of thought to happiness of language . If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be ...
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... tion If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in fome proportion ; All the world's riches and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our foul's foul , is . OF thoughts fo far - fatched , as to be not only ...
... tion If men be worlds , there is in every one Something to answer in fome proportion ; All the world's riches and in good men , this Virtue , our form's form , and our foul's foul , is . OF thoughts fo far - fatched , as to be not only ...
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