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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... sent back into England , that , " under pretence of priva cy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the ...
... sent back into England , that , " under pretence of priva cy and retirement , he might take occasion of giving notice of the posture of things in this nation . " Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the ...
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... sent , by their slender conceits and laboured particu- larities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon . What they wanted however ...
... sent , by their slender conceits and laboured particu- larities , the prospects of nature , or the scenes of life , than he who dissects a sun beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon . What they wanted however ...
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... , A globe , yea world , by that impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved SO , On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps COWLEY . 25.
... , A globe , yea world , by that impression grow , Till thy tears mixt with mine do overflow This world , by waters sent from thee my heaven dissolved SO , On reading the following lines , the reader may perhaps COWLEY . 25.
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... sent to Oxford , where he was con- sidered " as a dreaming young man , given more to dice and cards than study ; " and therefore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity ...
... sent to Oxford , where he was con- sidered " as a dreaming young man , given more to dice and cards than study ; " and therefore gave no prognostics of his future eminence ; nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and laxity ...
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... sent to St Paul's school , under the care of Mr Gill ; and removed , in the beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's College in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar , Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled in the ...
... sent to St Paul's school , under the care of Mr Gill ; and removed , in the beginning of his sixteenth year , to Christ's College in Cambridge , where he entered a sizar , Feb. 12 , 1624 . He was at this time eminently skilled in the ...
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