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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... himself by his confpicuous performances , that there arose no fmall contention , between the reprefentative electors of Trinity - college in Cambridge and Chrift - church in Oxon , which of those two royal focieties fhould adopt him as ...
... himself by his confpicuous performances , that there arose no fmall contention , between the reprefentative electors of Trinity - college in Cambridge and Chrift - church in Oxon , which of those two royal focieties fhould adopt him as ...
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... himself ( if any could excel him ) as induftrious to excel others . ' Twere to be wifhed he had confined himself to a particular profeffion , who was capable of furpaffing in any ; but , in this , his want of application was in a great ...
... himself ( if any could excel him ) as induftrious to excel others . ' Twere to be wifhed he had confined himself to a particular profeffion , who was capable of furpaffing in any ; but , in this , his want of application was in a great ...
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... himself , in the schools , as a philofopher and pole- mick of extenfive knowledge and deep penetration ; and went through all the courses with a wife regard to the dignity and importance of each science . I re- member him in the ...
... himself , in the schools , as a philofopher and pole- mick of extenfive knowledge and deep penetration ; and went through all the courses with a wife regard to the dignity and importance of each science . I re- member him in the ...
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... himself could give her . No man had a jufter notion of the difficulty of compofing than Mr. Smith ; and he fometimes would create greater difficulties than he had reason to appre- hend . Writing with ease , what ( as Mr. Wycherley ...
... himself could give her . No man had a jufter notion of the difficulty of compofing than Mr. Smith ; and he fometimes would create greater difficulties than he had reason to appre- hend . Writing with ease , what ( as Mr. Wycherley ...
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... himself in feveral confiderable undertakings ; in all which he had prepared the world to expect mighty things from him . I have feen about ten sheets of his English Pindar , which exceeded any thing of that kind I could ever hope for in ...
... himself in feveral confiderable undertakings ; in all which he had prepared the world to expect mighty things from him . I have feen about ten sheets of his English Pindar , which exceeded any thing of that kind I could ever hope for in ...
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