The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design was dropped , though they are very much to Mr. Smith's honour . The truth is , and I speak it before living witnesses , whilst an ...
... interest to have done with the utmost art and dexterity . I shall not mention for what reasons this design was dropped , though they are very much to Mr. Smith's honour . The truth is , and I speak it before living witnesses , whilst an ...
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... interest , with all the elegant judgment and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is so justly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct ...
... interest , with all the elegant judgment and diffusive good - nature for which that accomplished gentleman and author is so justly valued by mankind . But as to Phædra , she has certainly made a finer figure under Mr. Smith's conduct ...
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... interest or anxiety . The sentiments thus remote from life , are removed yet further by the diction , which is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue , and envelopes the thoughts rather than displays them . It is a scholar's play ...
... interest or anxiety . The sentiments thus remote from life , are removed yet further by the diction , which is too luxuriant and splendid for dialogue , and envelopes the thoughts rather than displays them . It is a scholar's play ...
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... interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could per- form in opposition to Learning , on a question which Learning only could decide ...
... interest and resentment have ceased . In 1697 he mingled in the controversy between Boyle and Bentley ; and was one of those who tried what Wit could per- form in opposition to Learning , on a question which Learning only could decide ...
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... interest or obedience to carry him ; but further he refused to go . When he found that the powers of the ecclesiastical commission were to be exercised against those who had refused the Declaration , he wrote to the lords , and other ...
... interest or obedience to carry him ; but further he refused to go . When he found that the powers of the ecclesiastical commission were to be exercised against those who had refused the Declaration , he wrote to the lords , and other ...
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