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 22
... expected fucceeding ages to regard with veneration . His affection was natural ; it had undoubtedly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infufed into it much knowledge ...
... expected fucceeding ages to regard with veneration . His affection was natural ; it had undoubtedly been written with great labour ; and who is willing to think that he has been labouring in vain ? He had infufed into it much knowledge ...
Pàgina 45
... expected ; but he finds another reafon for the feverity of his cen . furers , which he expreffes in language fuch as Cheapfide eafily furnished . " I am not free of the " Poets Company , having never kiffed the gover- " nor's hands ...
... expected ; but he finds another reafon for the feverity of his cen . furers , which he expreffes in language fuch as Cheapfide eafily furnished . " I am not free of the " Poets Company , having never kiffed the gover- " nor's hands ...
Pàgina 56
... expected from the common tenor of his profe : " As the feveral combinations of fplenetic " madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , fo the amicable accom- ❝modation and alliance between several virtues ...
... expected from the common tenor of his profe : " As the feveral combinations of fplenetic " madness and folly produce an infinite variety of irregular understanding , fo the amicable accom- ❝modation and alliance between several virtues ...
Pàgina 58
... expected that I fhould be able to give a critical account . I have been told that there is fomething in them of vexation and difcontent , difcovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade phyfick from its fublimity , and to reprefent it as ...
... expected that I fhould be able to give a critical account . I have been told that there is fomething in them of vexation and difcontent , difcovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade phyfick from its fublimity , and to reprefent it as ...
Pàgina 87
... expected to produce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated , in fix lines , * To Trinity College . By the university regifter it appears , that he was admitted to his Mafter's Degree in ...
... expected to produce ; but he was commended by old Waller , who perhaps was pleased to find himself imitated , in fix lines , * To Trinity College . By the university regifter it appears , that he was admitted to his Mafter's Degree in ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1782 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1783 |
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