The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... passed through the exercises of the college and university with unusual applause ; and though he often suffered his friends to call him off from his retirements , and to lengthen out those jovial avocations , yet his return to his ...
... passed through the exercises of the college and university with unusual applause ; and though he often suffered his friends to call him off from his retirements , and to lengthen out those jovial avocations , yet his return to his ...
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... passed under his pen had all the life , proportion , and embellishments bestowed on it , which an exquisite skill , a warm imagination , and a cool judgment , could possibly bestow on it . The epic , lyric , elegiac , every sort of ...
... passed under his pen had all the life , proportion , and embellishments bestowed on it , which an exquisite skill , a warm imagination , and a cool judgment , could possibly bestow on it . The epic , lyric , elegiac , every sort of ...
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... passed his days in the quiet exercise of his function . When the cause of Sacheverell put the public in com- motion , he honestly appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 ...
... passed his days in the quiet exercise of his function . When the cause of Sacheverell put the public in com- motion , he honestly appeared among the friends of the church . He lived to his seventy - ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 ...
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... passed for securing the Protestant Succession , he was appointed to carry the ensigns of the order to the electoral court . He sat as one of the judges of Sacheverell ; but voted for a mild sentence . Being now no longer in favour , he ...
... passed for securing the Protestant Succession , he was appointed to carry the ensigns of the order to the electoral court . He sat as one of the judges of Sacheverell ; but voted for a mild sentence . Being now no longer in favour , he ...
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... passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that selected us for confidence ; we admire more , in a patron , that judgment which , instead of scattering bounty indiscriminately ...
... passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that selected us for confidence ; we admire more , in a patron , that judgment which , instead of scattering bounty indiscriminately ...
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