The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... essays , was the Dissensions in Athens and Rome , published ( 1701 ) in his thirty - fourth year . After its appearance , paying a visit to some bishop , he heard mention made of the new pamphlet that Burnet had written , replete with ...
... essays , was the Dissensions in Athens and Rome , published ( 1701 ) in his thirty - fourth year . After its appearance , paying a visit to some bishop , he heard mention made of the new pamphlet that Burnet had written , replete with ...
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... Essays and Locke on Human Understanding . His reading , though his favourite authors are not known , appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious , for his early pieces show , with sufficient evidence , his knowledge of ...
... Essays and Locke on Human Understanding . His reading , though his favourite authors are not known , appears to have been sufficiently extensive and multifarious , for his early pieces show , with sufficient evidence , his knowledge of ...
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... Essay on Criticism , a work which displays such extent of comprehension , such nicety of distinction , such acquaintance with mankind , and such know- ledge both of ancient and modern learning , as are not often attained by the maturest ...
... Essay on Criticism , a work which displays such extent of comprehension , such nicety of distinction , such acquaintance with mankind , and such know- ledge both of ancient and modern learning , as are not often attained by the maturest ...
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... Essay will succeed , and who or what is the author . Its success he admits to be secured by the false opinions then prevalent ; the author he concludes to be young and raw . " First , because he discovers a sufficiency beyond his little ...
... Essay will succeed , and who or what is the author . Its success he admits to be secured by the false opinions then prevalent ; the author he concludes to be young and raw . " First , because he discovers a sufficiency beyond his little ...
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... Essay Pope declared that he did not expect the sale to be quick , because not one gentleman in sixty , even of liberal education , could understand it . The gentlemen and the edu- cation of that time seem to have been of a lower ...
... Essay Pope declared that he did not expect the sale to be quick , because not one gentleman in sixty , even of liberal education , could understand it . The gentlemen and the edu- cation of that time seem to have been of a lower ...
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