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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... fome time before his leaving Chrift - church , he was fent for by his mother to Worcester , and owned and acknow- ledged as her legitimate fon ; which had not been mentioned , but to wipe off the afperfions that were ignorantly caft by fome ...
... fome time before his leaving Chrift - church , he was fent for by his mother to Worcester , and owned and acknow- ledged as her legitimate fon ; which had not been mentioned , but to wipe off the afperfions that were ignorantly caft by fome ...
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... fome men's overbearing vanity made him ene- mies , yet the better part of mankind were obliged by the freedom of his reflections . His Bodleian Speech , though taken from a remote and imperfect copy , hath fhewn the world how great a ...
... fome men's overbearing vanity made him ene- mies , yet the better part of mankind were obliged by the freedom of his reflections . His Bodleian Speech , though taken from a remote and imperfect copy , hath fhewn the world how great a ...
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... fome poems to be defigned , fet out analytically ; wherein the fable , ftructure , and connexion , the images , in- cidents , moral , episodes , and a great variety of orna- ments , were fo finely laid out , fo well fitted to the rules ...
... fome poems to be defigned , fet out analytically ; wherein the fable , ftructure , and connexion , the images , in- cidents , moral , episodes , and a great variety of orna- ments , were fo finely laid out , fo well fitted to the rules ...
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... fome- times fpoiled an hour or two in good company . Where only fortune is wanting to make a great name , that fingle exception can never pass upon the beft judges and moft equitable obfervers of mankind ; and when the time comes for ...
... fome- times fpoiled an hour or two in good company . Where only fortune is wanting to make a great name , that fingle exception can never pass upon the beft judges and moft equitable obfervers of mankind ; and when the time comes for ...
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... fome illuftrations , and had felected his inftances of the falfe Sublime from the works of Blackmore . He refolved to try again the fortune of the Stage , with the ftory of Lady Jane Grey . It is not unlikely that his experience of the ...
... fome illuftrations , and had felected his inftances of the falfe Sublime from the works of Blackmore . He refolved to try again the fortune of the Stage , with the ftory of Lady Jane Grey . It is not unlikely that his experience of the ...
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