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
... hope , like Don Quixote , that the hiftorian of his actions might find him 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 ...
... hope , like Don Quixote , that the hiftorian of his actions might find him 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 ...
Pàgina 5
... , in his Profpect of Peace , has the fame hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall fport no more in arbitrary found . B 3 Whether Whether the fimilitude of thofe paffages which exhibit the fame PRIOR . 5.
... , in his Profpect of Peace , has the fame hope of a new academy : In happy chains our daring language bound , Shall fport no more in arbitrary found . B 3 Whether Whether the fimilitude of thofe paffages which exhibit the fame PRIOR . 5.
Pàgina 7
... hope that they might , by driving the Whigs from 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 ...
... hope that they might , by driving the Whigs from 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 ...
Pàgina 32
... hope for any other notice than fuch as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius which literary hiftory records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that that more furpaffes the common limits of ...
... hope for any other notice than fuch as is bestowed on diligence and inquiry . Among all the efforts of early genius which literary hiftory records , I doubt whether any one can be produced that that more furpaffes the common limits of ...
Pàgina 68
... hope from his poetry . The play was acted at the other theatre ; and the brutal petu- lance of Cibber was confuted , though , perhaps , not fhamed , by general applaufe . Fenton's profits are faid to have amounted to near a thousand ...
... hope from his poetry . The play was acted at the other theatre ; and the brutal petu- lance of Cibber was confuted , though , perhaps , not fhamed , by general applaufe . Fenton's profits are faid to have amounted to near a thousand ...
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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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