The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1C. Bathurst, 1783 |
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Pàgina iii
... Miscellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest defire of giving useful pleasure . [ iv ] In this minute kind of Hiftory , a 2 In [ i ]
... Miscellanies , containing a few dates and a general character ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest defire of giving useful pleasure . [ iv ] In this minute kind of Hiftory , a 2 In [ i ]
Pàgina 23
... pleasure or fuffer the uneafinefs of folitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his * age . Now in the poffeffion of Mr. Clarke , Alderman of London , He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer ...
... pleasure or fuffer the uneafinefs of folitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chertsey in 1667 , in the 49th year of his * age . Now in the poffeffion of Mr. Clarke , Alderman of London , He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer ...
Pàgina 25
... pleasure to its natural fources in the mind of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things fubject by their nature to the ...
... pleasure to its natural fources in the mind of man , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things fubject by their nature to the ...
Pàgina 28
... pleasure of other minds they never enquired what , on any occafion , they should have faid or done ; ' but wrote ra- ther as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
... pleasure of other minds they never enquired what , on any occafion , they should have faid or done ; ' but wrote ra- ther as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
Pàgina 60
... pleasure . The artifice of in- verfion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or new meanings of words are intro- duced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
... pleasure . The artifice of in- verfion , by which the established order of words is changed , or of innovation , by which new words or new meanings of words are intro- duced , is practifed , not by those who talk to be understood , but ...
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