Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... friends and to the univer- sity , till about 1703 he extended it to a wider circle by the ' Splendid Shilling , ' which struck the public attention with a mode of writing new and unexpected . This performance raised him so high , that ...
... friends and to the univer- sity , till about 1703 he extended it to a wider circle by the ' Splendid Shilling , ' which struck the public attention with a mode of writing new and unexpected . This performance raised him so high , that ...
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... friends . For no modest men ( as the person I write of was in perfection ) will write their own panegyrics ; and it is very hard that they should go without reputation , only because they the more deserve it . The end of writing Lives ...
... friends . For no modest men ( as the person I write of was in perfection ) will write their own panegyrics ; and it is very hard that they should go without reputation , only because they the more deserve it . The end of writing Lives ...
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... friends to call him off from his retirements , and to lengthen out those jovial avocations , yet his return to his studies was so much the more passionate , and his inten- tion upon those refined pleasures of reading and thinking so ...
... friends to call him off from his retirements , and to lengthen out those jovial avocations , yet his return to his studies was so much the more passionate , and his inten- tion upon those refined pleasures of reading and thinking so ...
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... friend Mr. Philips's ode to Mr. St. John ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) , after the manner of Horace's Lusory or Amatorian ... friends with great difficulty and reluctance . All of them together make but a small part of that much greater body ...
... friend Mr. Philips's ode to Mr. St. John ( late Lord Bolingbroke ) , after the manner of Horace's Lusory or Amatorian ... friends with great difficulty and reluctance . All of them together make but a small part of that much greater body ...
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... friends could promise or foresee . The number of nights , and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined ...
... friends could promise or foresee . The number of nights , and the common method of filling the house , are not always the surest marks of judging what encouragement a play meets with : but the generosity of all the persons of a refined ...
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