The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... young student , the greater part of his " Davideis " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at ...
... young student , the greater part of his " Davideis " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of many years , but by a mind of the greatest vigour and activity . Two years after his settlement at ...
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... ( young virgin ) but few suitors new ; The common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press : Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to con- sist of ...
... ( young virgin ) but few suitors new ; The common prostitute she lately grew , And with the spurious brood loads now the press : Laborious effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to con- sist of ...
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... young man , given more to cards than study ; " and therefore gave no prognostics af his future eminence , nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and levity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he ...
... young man , given more to cards than study ; " and therefore gave no prognostics af his future eminence , nor was suspected to conceal , under sluggishness and levity , a genius born to improve the literature of his country . When he ...
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... Young , who was afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary elegy . He was then sent to St. Paul's School , under the ...
... Young , who was afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have reason to think well , since his scholar considered him as worthy of an epistolary elegy . He was then sent to St. Paul's School , under the ...
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... young fry of a parish ; but only was willing to impart his learning and knowledge to his relations , and the sons of gentlemen who were his intimate friends , and that neither his writings nor his way of teaching ever savoured in the ...
... young fry of a parish ; but only was willing to impart his learning and knowledge to his relations , and the sons of gentlemen who were his intimate friends , and that neither his writings nor his way of teaching ever savoured in the ...
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