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 1
... fome illuftrious alliance . He is fuppofed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner † near Charing - crofs , who fent him for fome time to Dr. * The difficulty of fettling Prior's birth - place is ...
... fome illuftrious alliance . He is fuppofed to have fallen , by his father's death , into the hands of his uncle , a vintner † near Charing - crofs , who fent him for fome time to Dr. * The difficulty of fettling Prior's birth - place is ...
Pàgina 2
... fome poems upon facted fubjects , in acknowledgement of a benefaction enjoyed by them from the bounty of his ancestor . On this occafion were those verses written , which , though nothing is faid of their fuccefs , feem to have ...
... fome poems upon facted fubjects , in acknowledgement of a benefaction enjoyed by them from the bounty of his ancestor . On this occafion were those verses written , which , though nothing is faid of their fuccefs , feem to have ...
Pàgina 3
... fome degree of discontent , as it seems , in Prior , who probably knew that his own part of the performance was the beft . He had not , how- ever , much reason to complain ; for he came to London , and obtained fuch notice , that ( in ...
... fome degree of discontent , as it seems , in Prior , who probably knew that his own part of the performance was the beft . He had not , how- ever , much reason to complain ; for he came to London , and obtained fuch notice , that ( in ...
Pàgina 8
... fome degree clandeftine , the defign of treating not being . yet openly declared , and , when the Whigs returned to power , was aggravated to a charge of high trea- fon ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect anfwer to the report ...
... fome degree clandeftine , the defign of treating not being . yet openly declared , and , when the Whigs returned to power , was aggravated to a charge of high trea- fon ; though , as Prior remarks in his imperfect anfwer to the report ...
Pàgina 9
... fome miftake of the Queen's orders the 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 ...
... fome miftake of the Queen's orders the 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 ...
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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 |
The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1865 |
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