The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their WorksG. Clark and son, 1847 - 644 pàgines |
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... continued his studies with great intenseness : for he is said to have written , while " he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of ...
... continued his studies with great intenseness : for he is said to have written , while " he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of ...
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... continued , " says his biographer , " under these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the King , without the con- Bent of his bondsman ; he did not ...
... continued , " says his biographer , " under these bonds till the general deliverance ; " it is therefore to be supposed , that he did not go to France , and act again for the King , without the con- Bent of his bondsman ; he did not ...
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... continued till it is tedious : I ' th ' library a few choice authors stood , Yet ' twas well stor'd for that small store was good ; Writing , man's spiritual physic , was not then Itself , as now , grown a disease of men Learning ...
... continued till it is tedious : I ' th ' library a few choice authors stood , Yet ' twas well stor'd for that small store was good ; Writing , man's spiritual physic , was not then Itself , as now , grown a disease of men Learning ...
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... . He saw a certain way to present praise ; and not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of hu man manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel LIVES OF THE POETS .
... . He saw a certain way to present praise ; and not sufficiently inquiring by what means the ancients have continued to delight through all the changes of hu man manners , he contented himself with a deciduous laurel LIVES OF THE POETS .
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... continued ; and , to raise his character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour ; " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant general in Sir William ...
... continued ; and , to raise his character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour ; " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant general in Sir William ...
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