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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... formed , as it were , by your own hands , not to entitle you to any thing which my meanness produces , would be not only injustice , but facrilege . He published the fame year a poem on the Plague of Athens ; a fubject of which it is ...
... formed , as it were , by your own hands , not to entitle you to any thing which my meanness produces , would be not only injustice , but facrilege . He published the fame year a poem on the Plague of Athens ; a fubject of which it is ...
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... formed , and his ma- terials immethodically confused . This was his laft work . He died Jan. 18 , 1717-18 , and was buried at Harrow - on - the - Hill , His perfonal character feems to have been focial and liberal . He communicated ...
... formed , and his ma- terials immethodically confused . This was his laft work . He died Jan. 18 , 1717-18 , and was buried at Harrow - on - the - Hill , His perfonal character feems to have been focial and liberal . He communicated ...
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... formed his ftyle from the general lan- guage , fuch as a diligent perufal of the productions of different ages happened to supply . His Latin compofitions feem to have had much of his fondness ; for he collected a fecond volume of the ...
... formed his ftyle from the general lan- guage , fuch as a diligent perufal of the productions of different ages happened to supply . His Latin compofitions feem to have had much of his fondness ; for he collected a fecond volume of the ...
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... formed a plan of a tragedy upon the death of Socrates . - The lady fays , fhe had this information from a Mr. Stephens , who was a fellow of Merton college , a contemporary , and intimate with Mr. Addison in Oxford , who died near 50 ...
... formed a plan of a tragedy upon the death of Socrates . - The lady fays , fhe had this information from a Mr. Stephens , who was a fellow of Merton college , a contemporary , and intimate with Mr. Addison in Oxford , who died near 50 ...
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... formed his plan . 1 Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to lord Halifax , which is juftly confidered as the most elegant , if not the most sub- lime , of his poetical productions . But in about two ...
... formed his plan . 1 Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to lord Halifax , which is juftly confidered as the most elegant , if not the most sub- lime , of his poetical productions . But in about two ...
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