The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 1 |
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... some measure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an * Barnefii Anacreontem . Dr. J. elaborate F elaborate difplay of ...
... some measure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence is natural ; it is natural likewife for the lover to folicit reciprocal regard by an * Barnefii Anacreontem . Dr. J. elaborate F elaborate difplay of ...
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... Some of his letters to Mr. Ben- net , afterwards Earl of Arlington , from April to December in 1650 , are preserved in " Mifcellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like thofe of ...
... Some of his letters to Mr. Ben- net , afterwards Earl of Arlington , from April to December in 1650 , are preserved in " Mifcellanea Aulica , " a collection of papers published by Brown . These letters , being written like thofe of ...
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... Some * Confulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgilianæ , is a method of Divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstances of the perufer the firft paffage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his ...
... Some * Confulting the Virgilian Lots , Sortes Virgilianæ , is a method of Divination by the opening of Virgil , and applying to the circumstances of the perufer the firft paffage in either of the two pages that he accidentally fixes his ...
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. fays Some years afterwards , " business , " Sprat , " pffed of course into other hands ; " and that king Charles I. and lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. fays Some years afterwards , " business , " Sprat , " pffed of course into other hands ; " and that king Charles I. and lord Falkland , being in the Bodleian library , made this ...
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... Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and form perplext , Whose what and where in difputation is , If I should call me any thing , should miss . I fum the years and me , and find me not Debtor to th ' old ...
... Some emblem is of me , or I of this , Who , meteor - like , of stuff and form perplext , Whose what and where in difputation is , If I should call me any thing , should miss . I fum the years and me , and find me not Debtor to th ' old ...
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