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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... honour of his country by an Epiftle to Boileau . He published , foon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiaftic character of his de- ceafed patron the duke of Dorset : it began with the College Exercife , and ended with the ...
... honour of his country by an Epiftle to Boileau . He published , foon afterwards , a volume of poems , with the encomiaftic character of his de- ceafed patron the duke of Dorset : it began with the College Exercife , and ended with the ...
Pàgina 28
... honour , fays his admirer , to main- tain what , when he said it , was fo well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated firft at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having fome military employment that fta ...
... honour , fays his admirer , to main- tain what , when he said it , was fo well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated firft at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having fome military employment that fta ...
Pàgina 36
... honoured by the adverfe party might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with refpect ; and , among other ...
... honoured by the adverfe party might naturally expect to be advanced when his friends returned to power , and he was ... honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with refpect ; and , among other ...
Pàgina 44
... honour , that to have been once a school- master is the only reproach which all the perfpica- city of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . 186 When he firft engaged in the ftudy of phyfick , he enquired , as ...
... honour , that to have been once a school- master is the only reproach which all the perfpica- city of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . 186 When he firft engaged in the ftudy of phyfick , he enquired , as ...
Pàgina 47
... honour of knighthood , with a prefent of a gold chain and medal . The malignity of the wits attributed his knight- hood to his new poem ; but king William was not very ftudious of poetry , and Blackmore perhaps had other merit : for he ...
... honour of knighthood , with a prefent of a gold chain and medal . The malignity of the wits attributed his knight- hood to his new poem ; but king William was not very ftudious of poetry , and Blackmore perhaps had other merit : for he ...
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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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