The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Nichols and Son, 1801 - 1253 pàgines |
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... expected the author with his book , and had prepared to reward him with a place of three hundred pounds a - year . Smith , by pride , or caprice , or indolence , or bashfulness , neglected to attend him , though doubtless warned and ...
... expected the author with his book , and had prepared to reward him with a place of three hundred pounds a - year . Smith , by pride , or caprice , or indolence , or bashfulness , neglected to attend him , though doubtless warned and ...
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... expected . There is in his few productions no want of fuch con- ceits as he thought excellent ; and of thofe our judgement may be fettled by the first that appears in his praise of Cromwell , where he fays , that Crom- well's " " fame ...
... expected . There is in his few productions no want of fuch con- ceits as he thought excellent ; and of thofe our judgement may be fettled by the first that appears in his praise of Cromwell , where he fays , that Crom- well's " " fame ...
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... expected may pro- perly be proportioned not to his influence in the state , but to his rank among the writers of verfe . Charles Montague was born April 16 , 1661 , at Horton , in Northamptonshire , the son of Mr. George Montague , a ...
... expected may pro- perly be proportioned not to his influence in the state , but to his rank among the writers of verfe . Charles Montague was born April 16 , 1661 , at Horton , in Northamptonshire , the son of Mr. George Montague , a ...
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... expected , that the apothecaries would have undertaken the care of providing medicines ; but they took another course . Thinking the whole defign pernicious to their intereft , they endeavoured to raise a faction against it in the ...
... expected , that the apothecaries would have undertaken the care of providing medicines ; but they took another course . Thinking the whole defign pernicious to their intereft , they endeavoured to raise a faction against it in the ...
Pàgina 65
... expected it ; yet , I believe , those who compare it with former copies will find that he has done more than he promised ; and that , without the pomp of notes or boafts of criticifm , many paffages are happily restored . He prefixed a ...
... expected it ; yet , I believe , those who compare it with former copies will find that he has done more than he promised ; and that , without the pomp of notes or boafts of criticifm , many paffages are happily restored . He prefixed a ...
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