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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... 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 their own . But the ...
... 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 their own . But the ...
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... performance . The praise is often in- diftinct , and the fentences are loaded with words of more pomp than ufe . There is little , however , that can be contradicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . EDMUND NEALE , known by ...
... performance . The praise is often in- diftinct , and the fentences are loaded with words of more pomp than ufe . There is little , however , that can be contradicted , even when a plainer tale comes to be told . EDMUND NEALE , known by ...
Pàgina 38
... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excufe . The fame year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ; and , the year afterwards , received the laft ...
... performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excufe . The fame year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ; and , the year afterwards , received the laft ...
Pàgina 47
... performances which grati- tude forbids us to blame , affection will easily dif- pofe us to exalt . To these prejudices , hardly culpable , intereft adds a power always operating , though not always , because not willingly , perceived ...
... performances which grati- tude forbids us to blame , affection will easily dif- pofe us to exalt . To these prejudices , hardly culpable , intereft adds a power always operating , though not always , because not willingly , perceived ...
Pàgina 49
... performance , that he always feemed to do beft that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness , and general without confufion ; whose language was copious without exuberance , exact without ...
... performance , that he always feemed to do beft that which he was doing ; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness , and general without confufion ; whose language was copious without exuberance , exact without ...
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