The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect . . Mr. Edmund Smith was the only son of an eminent merchant , one Mr. Neale , by a daughter of the famous Baron Lechmere . Some ...
... once , than to take by pieces . I shall subjoin such little memorials as accident has enabled me to collect . . Mr. Edmund Smith was the only son of an eminent merchant , one Mr. Neale , by a daughter of the famous Baron Lechmere . Some ...
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... say nothing of his person , which yet was so well turned , that no neglect of himself in his dress could render it disagreeable ; insomuch that the fair sex , who observed and esteemed him , at once commended and 2 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... say nothing of his person , which yet was so well turned , that no neglect of himself in his dress could render it disagreeable ; insomuch that the fair sex , who observed and esteemed him , at once commended and 2 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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Samuel Johnson. who observed and esteemed him , at once commended and reproved him by the name of the handsome sloven . An eager but generous and noble emulation grew up with him ; which ( as it were a rational sort of instinct ) pushed ...
Samuel Johnson. who observed and esteemed him , at once commended and reproved him by the name of the handsome sloven . An eager but generous and noble emulation grew up with him ; which ( as it were a rational sort of instinct ) pushed ...
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... once adorn and defend the Christian hero , and equip him for the combat . Mr. Smith had a long and perfect intimacy with all the Greek and Latin classics , with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth perusing in the French ...
... once adorn and defend the Christian hero , and equip him for the combat . Mr. Smith had a long and perfect intimacy with all the Greek and Latin classics , with whom he had carefully compared whatever was worth perusing in the French ...
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... once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . But he was still a genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him : he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at the ...
... once heard a single line too gross to be repeated . But he was still a genius and a scholar , and Oxford was unwilling to lose him : he was endured , with all his pranks and his vices , two years longer ; but on Dec. 20 , 1705 , at the ...
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