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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... things one man of parts can fay of another , " and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better- to transcribe at once than to take by pieces . I fhall fubjoin fuch little memorials as accident ...
... things one man of parts can fay of another , " and which , however , comprises great part of what can be known of Mr. Smith , it is better- to transcribe at once than to take by pieces . I fhall fubjoin fuch little memorials as accident ...
Pàgina 3
... thing of his perfon , which yet was fo well turned , that no neglect of himself in his drefs could render it difagreeable ; infomuch that the fair fex , who ob- ferved and esteemed him , at once commended and reproved him by the name of ...
... thing of his perfon , which yet was fo well turned , that no neglect of himself in his drefs could render it difagreeable ; infomuch that the fair fex , who ob- ferved and esteemed him , at once commended and reproved him by the name of ...
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... thing in them imean and trifling , that , like the junior compofitions of Mr. Stepney , they may make grey authors blush . There are many of his firft effays in oratory , in epigram , elegy , and epique , ftill handed about the ...
... thing in them imean and trifling , that , like the junior compofitions of Mr. Stepney , they may make grey authors blush . There are many of his firft effays in oratory , in epigram , elegy , and epique , ftill handed about the ...
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... thing but what was fubftantial and lafting . He confidered the ancients and mo- derns not as parties or rivals for fame , but as Archi- tects upon one and the fame plan , the Art of Poetry ; according to which he judged , approved , and ...
... thing but what was fubftantial and lafting . He confidered the ancients and mo- derns not as parties or rivals for fame , but as Archi- tects upon one and the fame plan , the Art of Poetry ; according to which he judged , approved , and ...
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... remember to have seen any thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made fome attempts this way with applause . He was an excellent judge of humanity ; and fo good an an hiftorian , that in familiar difcourfe he would talk 8 SMIT H. TH.
... remember to have seen any thing like it in Dr. Bathurst , who had made fome attempts this way with applause . He was an excellent judge of humanity ; and fo good an an hiftorian , that in familiar difcourfe he would talk 8 SMIT H. TH.
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