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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... ment . He paffed through the exercises of the college and univerfity with unufual applaufe ; and though . he often fuffered his friends to call him off from his retirements , and to lengthen out thofe jovial avoca- tions , yet his ...
... ment . He paffed through the exercises of the college and univerfity with unufual applaufe ; and though . he often fuffered his friends to call him off from his retirements , and to lengthen out thofe jovial avoca- tions , yet his ...
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... ment , who loved him . It cannot be supposed they would fupprefs any thing that was his , but out of respect to his memory , and for want of proper hands to finish what fo great a genius had begun . SUCH SUCH is the declamation of ...
... ment , who loved him . It cannot be supposed they would fupprefs any thing that was his , but out of respect to his memory , and for want of proper hands to finish what fo great a genius had begun . SUCH SUCH is the declamation of ...
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... ment , and was left unmolefted ; but , in 1692 , a ftrange attack was made upon him by one Robert Young and Stephen Blackhead , both men convicted of infamous crimes , and both , when the fcheme was laid , prifoners in Newgate . These ...
... ment , and was left unmolefted ; but , in 1692 , a ftrange attack was made upon him by one Robert Young and Stephen Blackhead , both men convicted of infamous crimes , and both , when the fcheme was laid , prifoners in Newgate . These ...
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... ment , doubted whether any injury was intended him , but thought it rather lord Oxford's odd way . It is likely that he lived on difcontented through the rest of Queen Anne's reign ; but the time came at laft when he found kinder ...
... ment , doubted whether any injury was intended him , but thought it rather lord Oxford's odd way . It is likely that he lived on difcontented through the rest of Queen Anne's reign ; but the time came at laft when he found kinder ...
Pàgina 111
... ment than deteftation ; and he detects follies rather than crimes . If any judgement be made , from his books , of his moral character , nothing will be found but purity and excellence . Knowledge of mankind , indeed , lefs lefs ...
... ment than deteftation ; and he detects follies rather than crimes . If any judgement be made , from his books , of his moral character , nothing will be found but purity and excellence . Knowledge of mankind , indeed , lefs lefs ...
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