Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2J. Murray, 1854 - 444 pàgines |
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... Learning -MS . Lord Dorset's things are all excellent in their way ; for one should consider his pieces as a sort of epigrams ; wit was his talent . He and Lord Rochester should be considered as holiday writers , as gentlemen that ...
... Learning -MS . Lord Dorset's things are all excellent in their way ; for one should consider his pieces as a sort of epigrams ; wit was his talent . He and Lord Rochester should be considered as holiday writers , as gentlemen that ...
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... learning , his temper , but , above all , of that par- ticular turn of humour , that altogether new genius , he had been an example to their poets , and a subject of their panegyrics , and perhaps set in competition with the ancients ...
... learning , his temper , but , above all , of that par- ticular turn of humour , that altogether new genius , he had been an example to their poets , and a subject of their panegyrics , and perhaps set in competition with the ancients ...
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... learning , they easily forgave him all other differences . Hence it was that both his acquaintance and retirements were his own free choice . What Mr. Prior observes upon a very great character3 was true of him , that most of his faults ...
... learning , they easily forgave him all other differences . Hence it was that both his acquaintance and retirements were his own free choice . What Mr. Prior observes upon a very great character3 was true of him , that most of his faults ...
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... learning and nature will now and then take different His play pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , 12 hardly heard the third night.13 Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ...
... learning and nature will now and then take different His play pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , 12 hardly heard the third night.13 Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit , had ...
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... learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular , and then pious . His studies had been so various , that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge . His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately ...
... learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular , and then pious . His studies had been so various , that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge . His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately ...
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