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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... written , which , though nothing is faid of their fuccefs , feem to have recommended him to fome notice ; for his praife of the countefs's mufick , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reafon for imagining that he was ...
... written , which , though nothing is faid of their fuccefs , feem to have recommended him to fome notice ; for his praife of the countefs's mufick , and his lines on the famous picture of Seneca , afford reafon for imagining that he was ...
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... written , as it happened , by any wit of the party , and fometimes as is faid by Mrs. Manley . Some are owned by Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verfes to Godolphin upon the lofs of his place , was written by Prior , and ...
... written , as it happened , by any wit of the party , and fometimes as is faid by Mrs. Manley . Some are owned by Swift ; and one , in ridicule of Garth's verfes to Godolphin upon the lofs of his place , was written by Prior , and ...
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... written in favour of the elector of Bavaria . " I fhall ex- " 6 pect , " fays he , " with impatience , the return " of Mr. Prior , whofe conduct is very agreeable to " me . " And while the duke of Shrewsbury was ftill at Paris ...
... written in favour of the elector of Bavaria . " I fhall ex- " 6 pect , " fays he , " with impatience , the return " of Mr. Prior , whofe conduct is very agreeable to " me . " And while the duke of Shrewsbury was ftill at Paris ...
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... , behaved with the boisteroufnefs of men elated by recent authority . They are repre- fented as asking questions fometimes vague , fome- times infidious , and writing answers different from those which times IO PRIOR .
... , behaved with the boisteroufnefs of men elated by recent authority . They are repre- fented as asking questions fometimes vague , fome- times infidious , and writing answers different from those which times IO PRIOR .
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. times infidious , and writing answers different from those which they received . Prior however , feems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confeffes that he ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. times infidious , and writing answers different from those which they received . Prior however , feems to have been overpowered by their turbulence ; for he confeffes that he ...
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