The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... able to preferve , though written upon a fubject flux and tranfitory . The Hiftory of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wifh to know what they were then doing , but how their Tranfac- tions are exhibited by Sprat . In the ...
... able to preferve , though written upon a fubject flux and tranfitory . The Hiftory of the Royal Society is now read , not with the wifh to know what they were then doing , but how their Tranfac- tions are exhibited by Sprat . In the ...
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... able to deny what he is angry to hear and loth to confefs . Pope afterwards declared himself convinced that Garth died in the communion of the Church of Rome , having been privately reconciled . It is obferved by Lowth , that there is ...
... able to deny what he is angry to hear and loth to confefs . Pope afterwards declared himself convinced that Garth died in the communion of the Church of Rome , having been privately reconciled . It is obferved by Lowth , that there is ...
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... general delectation ; and therefore , fince it has been no longer supported by accidental and ex- trinfick popularity , it has been fcarcely able to fup- port itself . ROWE RO W E. N ICHOLAS ROWE was born at Little GART H. 27.
... general delectation ; and therefore , fince it has been no longer supported by accidental and ex- trinfick popularity , it has been fcarcely able to fup- port itself . ROWE RO W E. N ICHOLAS ROWE was born at Little GART H. 27.
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... able . The Golden Verfes are tedious . The version of Lucan is one of the greatest produc- tions of English poetry ; for there is perhaps none that fo completely exhibits the genius and fpirit of the original . Lucan is diftinguished by ...
... able . The Golden Verfes are tedious . The version of Lucan is one of the greatest produc- tions of English poetry ; for there is perhaps none that fo completely exhibits the genius and fpirit of the original . Lucan is diftinguished by ...
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... able , the malignant and blasting influence of the Lieutenant , and that at least by his intervention fome good was done , and fome mischief prevented . When he was in office , he made a law to himself , a's Swift has recorded , never ...
... able , the malignant and blasting influence of the Lieutenant , and that at least by his intervention fome good was done , and fome mischief prevented . When he was in office , he made a law to himself , a's Swift has recorded , never ...
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