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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... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and furprising turns pe- culiar to the perfon praised . I do not remember to have seen any thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made fome ...
... kind , though , like Waller's writings upon Oliver Cromwell , it wants not the most delicate and furprising turns pe- culiar to the perfon praised . I do not remember to have seen any thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made fome ...
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... kind was fo well known and allowed , that he had been fingled out by fome great men to write a history ; which it was for their intereft to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I fhall not mention for what rea- fons this defign ...
... kind was fo well known and allowed , that he had been fingled out by fome great men to write a history ; which it was for their intereft to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I fhall not mention for what rea- fons this defign ...
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... kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out a plan of a tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I ...
... kind I could ever hope for in our own language . He had drawn out a plan of a tragedy of the Lady Jane Grey , and had gone through several scenes of it . But he could not well have bequeathed that work to better hands than where , I ...
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... kind feldom live long , when inte- reft and refentment have ceafed . In 1697 , he mingled in the controverfy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could perform in oppofition to Learning , on a question ...
... kind feldom live long , when inte- reft and refentment have ceafed . In 1697 , he mingled in the controverfy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could perform in oppofition to Learning , on a question ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. feffion , nor indeed any kind of business which in- terrupted his voluptuary dreams , or forced him to rouse from that indulgence in which only he could find delight . His ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. feffion , nor indeed any kind of business which in- terrupted his voluptuary dreams , or forced him to rouse from that indulgence in which only he could find delight . His ...
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