The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... least inclined to forgive . this was not owing to conceit and vanity , or a fulness of himself ( a frailty which has been imputed to no less men than Shakespeare and Jonson ) , is clear from hence ; because he left his works to the ...
... least inclined to forgive . this was not owing to conceit and vanity , or a fulness of himself ( a frailty which has been imputed to no less men than Shakespeare and Jonson ) , is clear from hence ; because he left his works to the ...
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... character , was true of him ; that most of his faults brought their excuse with them . Those who blamed him most understood him least , it being the custom of the vulgar to charge an excess upon 10 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... character , was true of him ; that most of his faults brought their excuse with them . Those who blamed him most understood him least , it being the custom of the vulgar to charge an excess upon 10 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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... least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . He was of an advanced age , and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt . He was a Whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet ...
... least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice . He was of an advanced age , and I was only not a boy ; yet he never received my notions with contempt . He was a Whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet ...
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... least Sir Hans Sloane their president , in two dialogues , intituled The Transactioneer . Though he was a regular advocate in the courts of civil and canon law , he did not love his profession , nor indeed any kind of business which ...
... least Sir Hans Sloane their president , in two dialogues , intituled The Transactioneer . Though he was a regular advocate in the courts of civil and canon law , he did not love his profession , nor indeed any kind of business which ...
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... least in the projection of The Examiner . His eyes were open to all the operations of Whiggism ; and he bestowed some strictures upon Dr. Kennett's adulatory sermon at the funeral of the Duke of Devonshire . The History of the Heathen ...
... least in the projection of The Examiner . His eyes were open to all the operations of Whiggism ; and he bestowed some strictures upon Dr. Kennett's adulatory sermon at the funeral of the Duke of Devonshire . The History of the Heathen ...
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