The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 - English poetry |
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... perhaps with equal probability , to a paffion which feems to have been deeply fixed in his heart , the love of a fhilling . In time he began to think that his attendance at Moor - park deserved fome other recompence than the pleasure ...
... perhaps with equal probability , to a paffion which feems to have been deeply fixed in his heart , the love of a fhilling . In time he began to think that his attendance at Moor - park deserved fome other recompence than the pleasure ...
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... perhaps the only , topick we have " left . Who would ever have fufpected Afgill for " a wit , or Toland for a philofopher , if the inex- " hauftible stock of Christianity had not been at " hand to provide them with materials ? What ...
... perhaps the only , topick we have " left . Who would ever have fufpected Afgill for " a wit , or Toland for a philofopher , if the inex- " hauftible stock of Christianity had not been at " hand to provide them with materials ? What ...
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... perhaps it must be allowed that the proper teft has not been chofen . The attention paid to the papers , published under the name of “ Bickerftaff , " induced Steele , when he projected the " Tatler , " to affume an appellation which ...
... perhaps it must be allowed that the proper teft has not been chofen . The attention paid to the papers , published under the name of “ Bickerftaff , " induced Steele , when he projected the " Tatler , " to affume an appellation which ...
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... perhaps not quick by nature , be- came yet more flow by irrefolution ; and was content to hear that dilatorinefs lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as politick . Without the Tories , however , nothing could be done ...
... perhaps not quick by nature , be- came yet more flow by irrefolution ; and was content to hear that dilatorinefs lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as politick . Without the Tories , however , nothing could be done ...
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... perhaps , however , he did not at firft know his own mind , and , as he reprefents him- felf , was undetermined . For his admiffion of her courtship , and his indulgence of her hopes after his marriage to Stella , no other honeft plea ...
... perhaps , however , he did not at firft know his own mind , and , as he reprefents him- felf , was undetermined . For his admiffion of her courtship , and his indulgence of her hopes after his marriage to Stella , no other honeft plea ...
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