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 75
... remarkable for inflexible perfeverance in her demand to be treated as a princefs , in 1712 took Gay into her service as fecretary by quitting a fhop for fuch fervice , he might gain leifure , but he certainly advanced little in the boat ...
... remarkable for inflexible perfeverance in her demand to be treated as a princefs , in 1712 took Gay into her service as fecretary by quitting a fhop for fuch fervice , he might gain leifure , but he certainly advanced little in the boat ...
Pàgina 77
... remarkable , produced a pamphlet called The Key to the What d'ye call it ; which , fays Gay , " calls me a blockhead , and Mr. Pope a knave . " But fortune has always been inconftant . Not long afterwards ( 1717 ) he endeavoured to ...
... remarkable , produced a pamphlet called The Key to the What d'ye call it ; which , fays Gay , " calls me a blockhead , and Mr. Pope a knave . " But fortune has always been inconftant . Not long afterwards ( 1717 ) he endeavoured to ...
Pàgina 100
... remarkable fentence by which he warned his congregation to " beware of , " thorough - paced doctrine , " that doctrine which " coming in at one ear , paces through the head , " and goes out at the other . " Nothing worse than this ...
... remarkable fentence by which he warned his congregation to " beware of , " thorough - paced doctrine , " that doctrine which " coming in at one ear , paces through the head , " and goes out at the other . " Nothing worse than this ...
Pàgina 115
... remarkable for what they have fuffered , than for what they have achieved ; and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned , and relate their unhappy lives , and un- timely deaths . To these mournful ...
... remarkable for what they have fuffered , than for what they have achieved ; and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned , and relate their unhappy lives , and un- timely deaths . To these mournful ...
Pàgina 116
... remarkable by the diffolution of a marriage folemnized in the face of the church . SALMON'S REVIEW . The following proteft is registered in the books of the House of Lords : Diffentient ; Becaufe that we conceive that this is the first ...
... remarkable by the diffolution of a marriage folemnized in the face of the church . SALMON'S REVIEW . The following proteft is registered in the books of the House of Lords : Diffentient ; Becaufe that we conceive that this is the first ...
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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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