The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of ...
... elegance of language have defervedly fet him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he has given the character , not the life of ...
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... A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others , an intellectual digeftion that con- cocted the pulp of learning , but refufed the husks , had had the appearance of an inftinctive elegance , of a 4 6 COWLEY .
... A memory admitting fome things , and rejecting others , an intellectual digeftion that con- cocted the pulp of learning , but refufed the husks , had had the appearance of an inftinctive elegance , of a 4 6 COWLEY .
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Samuel Johnson. had the appearance of an inftinctive elegance , of a particular provifion made by Nature for literary po- litenefs . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy " to ...
Samuel Johnson. had the appearance of an inftinctive elegance , of a particular provifion made by Nature for literary po- litenefs . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he fays , fuch " an enemy " to ...
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... elegance of his converfation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About About the time when ...
... elegance of his converfation , that he gained the kindness and confidence of those who attended the King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice caft a luftre on all to whom it was extended . About About the time when ...
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... elegance , and to have known that the bufinefs of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agi- tation : " The Scotch ...
... elegance , and to have known that the bufinefs of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One paffage , however , seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agi- tation : " The Scotch ...
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