The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina 2
... lived to the age of eighty , had her folicitude rewarded by feeing her fon eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his profperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care ...
... lived to the age of eighty , had her folicitude rewarded by feeing her fon eminent , and , I hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his profperity . We know at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her care ...
Pàgina 78
... lived and acted with man- ners uncommunicable ; fo that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the ftate of them whose story is related , and by con- fequence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the ...
... lived and acted with man- ners uncommunicable ; fo that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the ftate of them whose story is related , and by con- fequence their joys and griefs are not eafily adopted , nor can the ...
Pàgina 128
... lived five years ; in which time he fs faid to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this univerfality is to be under- ftood , who fhall inform us ? It might be supposed that he who read fo much should have ...
... lived five years ; in which time he fs faid to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this univerfality is to be under- ftood , who fhall inform us ? It might be supposed that he who read fo much should have ...
Pàgina 129
... lived at Horton he used fometimes to fteal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Hare- field , the house of the countess dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick entertainment . He began now to grow weary ...
... lived at Horton he used fometimes to fteal from his studies a few days , which he spent at Hare- field , the house of the countess dowager of Derby , where the Arcades made part of a dramatick entertainment . He began now to grow weary ...
Pàgina 180
... lived longer in this place than in any other . He was now bufied by Paradife Loft . Whence he drew the original defign has been variously conjectured , by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last ...
... lived longer in this place than in any other . He was now bufied by Paradife Loft . Whence he drew the original defign has been variously conjectured , by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last ...
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