The lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works, Volum 1G. Walker, J. Akerman, E. Edwards, W. Robinson and Sons, Liverpool, E. Thomson, Manchester, J. Noble, Hull, J. Wilson, Berwick, W. Whyte and Company, Edinburgh, and R. Griffin and Company, Glasgow, 1820 |
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... intention , I hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of history the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without iv ADVERTISEMENT . suspicion that some of Dryden's works are.
... intention , I hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of history the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without iv ADVERTISEMENT . suspicion that some of Dryden's works are.
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... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one king- dom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
... easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one king- dom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering and decyphering , comes to his own country ...
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... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St Al- ban's , and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
... easily find his way back , when solitude should grow tedious . His retreat was at first but slenderly accommodated ; yet he soon obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St Al- ban's , and the Duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the ...
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... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transae- tions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his ...
... easily irritated , was obliged to pass over many transae- tions in general expressions , and to leave curiosity often unsatisfied . What he did not tell , cannot however now be known ; I must therefore recom- mend the perusal of his ...
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... easily understood with out examples ; and I have therefore collected in- stances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
... easily understood with out examples ; and I have therefore collected in- stances of the modes of writing by which this species of poets ( for poets they were called by themselves and their admirers ) was eminently distinguished . As the ...
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