The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3D. Buchanan, sold by him, & by W. Creech, P. Hill, W. Mudie, & A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1800 |
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Pàgina 4
... court of France , where he is faid to have been confidered with great diftinction . As he was one day furveying the apartments at Verfailles , being fhewn the Victories of Lewis , painted by Le Brun , and afked whether the king of ...
... court of France , where he is faid to have been confidered with great diftinction . As he was one day furveying the apartments at Verfailles , being fhewn the Victories of Lewis , painted by Le Brun , and afked whether the king of ...
Pàgina 7
... court and from power , gratify at once the queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might con- vey intelligence of past abuses , and fhew the waste of public money , the unreafonable Conduct of the Allies , the ...
... court and from power , gratify at once the queen and the people . There was now a call for writers , who might con- vey intelligence of past abuses , and fhew the waste of public money , the unreafonable Conduct of the Allies , the ...
Pàgina 9
... court of France had been difgufted ; and Bolingbroke fays in his letter , " Dear Mat , hide the nakednefs : " of thy country , and give the beft turn thy fertile " brain will furnifh thee with to the blunders of " thy countrymen , who ...
... court of France had been difgufted ; and Bolingbroke fays in his letter , " Dear Mat , hide the nakednefs : " of thy country , and give the beft turn thy fertile " brain will furnifh thee with to the blunders of " thy countrymen , who ...
Pàgina 68
... court . Fenton feems to have had fome peculiar fyftem of verification . Mariamne is written in lines of ten fyllables , with few of thofe redundant termina- tions which the drama not only admits but re- quires , as more nearly ...
... court . Fenton feems to have had fome peculiar fyftem of verification . Mariamne is written in lines of ten fyllables , with few of thofe redundant termina- tions which the drama not only admits but re- quires , as more nearly ...
Pàgina 76
... court of Hanover . This was a station that naturally gave him hopes of kindness from every party ; but the queen's death put an end to her favours , and he had dedicated his Shepherd's Week to Bolingbroke , which Swift confidered as the ...
... court of Hanover . This was a station that naturally gave him hopes of kindness from every party ; but the queen's death put an end to her favours , and he had dedicated his Shepherd's Week to Bolingbroke , which Swift confidered as the ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1782 |
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets with Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1800 |
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