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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... took - in and fur- mounted the most fubtle and knotty parts of mathe- maticks and metaphyficks . His wit was prompt and flowing , yet folid and piercing ; his tafte deli- cate , his head clear , and his way of expreffing his thoughts ...
... took - in and fur- mounted the most fubtle and knotty parts of mathe- maticks and metaphyficks . His wit was prompt and flowing , yet folid and piercing ; his tafte deli- cate , his head clear , and his way of expreffing his thoughts ...
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... is clear from hence ; because he left his works to the entire disposal of his friends , whose most rigorous cenfures he even courted and folicited , fub- fubmitting to their animadverfions , and the freedom they took SMITH . II.
... is clear from hence ; because he left his works to the entire disposal of his friends , whose most rigorous cenfures he even courted and folicited , fub- fubmitting to their animadverfions , and the freedom they took SMITH . II.
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... took with them , with an unreserved and pru- dent refignation . I have seen sketches and rough draughts of fome poems to be defigned , fet out analytically ; wherein the fable , ftructure , and connexion , the images , in- cidents ...
... took with them , with an unreserved and pru- dent refignation . I have seen sketches and rough draughts of fome poems to be defigned , fet out analytically ; wherein the fable , ftructure , and connexion , the images , in- cidents ...
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... took care to have no deal- ings with mankind , in which he could not be just ; and he defired to be at no other expence in his pre- tenfions than that of intrinfick merit , which was the only burthen and reproach he ever brought upon ...
... took care to have no deal- ings with mankind , in which he could not be just ; and he defired to be at no other expence in his pre- tenfions than that of intrinfick merit , which was the only burthen and reproach he ever brought upon ...
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... took his master's degree on the 8th of July , 1696 ; he therefore was probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may fuppofe him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his college was fuch as has been told ...
... took his master's degree on the 8th of July , 1696 ; he therefore was probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may fuppofe him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his college was fuch as has been told ...
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