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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... faid by Dr. Bur- ton to fhew " what fine things one man of parts can fay of another , " and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better- to transcribe at once than to take by pieces . I fhall ...
... faid by Dr. Bur- ton to fhew " what fine things one man of parts can fay of another , " and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better- to transcribe at once than to take by pieces . I fhall ...
Pàgina 5
... faid of Plotius , Varius , and Virgil , might juftly be applied to him : " Nil ego contulerim jucundo fanus Amico . " Sat. v . 1. 1 . As correct a writer as he was in his moft elaborate pieces , he read the works of others with candour ...
... faid of Plotius , Varius , and Virgil , might juftly be applied to him : " Nil ego contulerim jucundo fanus Amico . " Sat. v . 1. 1 . As correct a writer as he was in his moft elaborate pieces , he read the works of others with candour ...
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... faid he to his friend , " He that wanted me below was Addifon , " whose business was to tell me that a Hiftory of the " Revolution was intended , and to propofe that I " fhould undertake it . I faid , 6 I faid , What shall I do " with ...
... faid he to his friend , " He that wanted me below was Addifon , " whose business was to tell me that a Hiftory of the " Revolution was intended , and to propofe that I " fhould undertake it . I faid , 6 I faid , What shall I do " with ...
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... faid to have profecuted his ftudies with so much intenseness and activity , that before he was eight years standing he had read over , and made remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manufcripts . The books were ...
... faid to have profecuted his ftudies with so much intenseness and activity , that before he was eight years standing he had read over , and made remarks upon , twenty - two thousand odd hundred books and manufcripts . The books were ...
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... faid to have helped in writing the Rebear fal . He was likewife chaplain to the king . As he was the favourite of Wilkins , at whofe house began thofe philofophical conferences and en- quiries which in time produced the Royal Society ...
... faid to have helped in writing the Rebear fal . He was likewife chaplain to the king . As he was the favourite of Wilkins , at whofe house began thofe philofophical conferences and en- quiries which in time produced the Royal Society ...
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