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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... gives value to the praife which he receives , and confiders the fentence paffed in his favour as the fentence of , difcernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that fetected us for confi- dence ; we admire more , in a patron ...
... gives value to the praife which he receives , and confiders the fentence paffed in his favour as the fentence of , difcernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that fetected us for confi- dence ; we admire more , in a patron ...
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... gives me an opportunity of paying due tribute to the memory of Goldsmith . Τὸ γὰρ γέρας ἐςι θανόντων . THOMAS PARNELL was the fon of a com monwealthfman of the fame name , who at the Restora- tion left Congleton in Cheshire , where the ...
... gives me an opportunity of paying due tribute to the memory of Goldsmith . Τὸ γὰρ γέρας ἐςι θανόντων . THOMAS PARNELL was the fon of a com monwealthfman of the fame name , who at the Restora- tion left Congleton in Cheshire , where the ...
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... give gratuitous advice to the neighbouring poor .. This edict was fent to the Court of Aldermen ; and a queftion being made to whom the appellation of the poor fhould be extended , the College answered , that it fhould be fufficient to ...
... give gratuitous advice to the neighbouring poor .. This edict was fent to the Court of Aldermen ; and a queftion being made to whom the appellation of the poor fhould be extended , the College answered , that it fhould be fufficient to ...
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... give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with fo much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to ele- gant literature . His next tragedy ( 1702 ) was Tamerlane , in ...
... give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with fo much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to ele- gant literature . His next tragedy ( 1702 ) was Tamerlane , in ...
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... gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion , however , of the time , was , to accumulate upon Lewis all that can raife horror and deteftation ; and whatever good was withheld from him , that it might not ...
... gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion , however , of the time , was , to accumulate upon Lewis all that can raife horror and deteftation ; and whatever good was withheld from him , that it might not ...
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