The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... death , were the occasion of the son's being left very young in the hands of a near relation ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , and put him to ...
... death , were the occasion of the son's being left very young in the hands of a near relation ( one who married Mr. Neale's sister ) whose name was Smith . This gentleman and his lady treated him as their own child , and put him to ...
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Samuel Johnson. handsomely maintained till her death ; after which he continued a member of that learned and ingenious society , till within five years of his own ; though , some time before his leaving Christ Church , he was sent for by ...
Samuel Johnson. handsomely maintained till her death ; after which he continued a member of that learned and ingenious society , till within five years of his own ; though , some time before his leaving Christ Church , he was sent for by ...
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... death of Mr. Philips is full of the noblest beauties , and hath done justice to the ashes of that second Milton , whose writings will last as long as the English language , generosity , and valour . For him Mr. Smith had contracted a ...
... death of Mr. Philips is full of the noblest beauties , and hath done justice to the ashes of that second Milton , whose writings will last as long as the English language , generosity , and valour . For him Mr. Smith had contracted a ...
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... death , he had engaged himself in several considerable undertakings ; in all which he had pre- pared the world to expect mighty things from him . I have seen about ten sheets of his English Pindar , which exceeded anything of that kind ...
... death , he had engaged himself in several considerable undertakings ; in all which he had pre- pared the world to expect mighty things from him . I have seen about ten sheets of his English Pindar , which exceeded anything of that kind ...
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... death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been yet but two years in the university . This ode , which closed the second volume of the Musæ Anglicana ...
... death of the great Orientalist , Dr. Pocock , who died in 1691 , and whose praise must have been written by Smith when he had been yet but two years in the university . This ode , which closed the second volume of the Musæ Anglicana ...
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