The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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Page 12
... some good was done , and some mischief prevented . ་ When he was in office , he made a law to himself , as Swift has recorded , never to remit his regular fees in civility to his friends : " For , “ said he , I may have a hundred ...
... some good was done , and some mischief prevented . ་ When he was in office , he made a law to himself , as Swift has recorded , never to remit his regular fees in civility to his friends : " For , “ said he , I may have a hundred ...
Page 32
... some strokes less elegant , and lefs decent ; fuch as the Pretender's Jour- nal , in which one topick of ridicule is his po- verty . This mode of abuse had been employ- ed by Milton against king Charles II . Jacobæi Centum exulantis ...
... some strokes less elegant , and lefs decent ; fuch as the Pretender's Jour- nal , in which one topick of ridicule is his po- verty . This mode of abuse had been employ- ed by Milton against king Charles II . Jacobæi Centum exulantis ...
Page 41
... some preferment designed for him had by Addison's intervention been withheld . Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life , and perhaps of loofe opinions . Addifon , for whom he did not want refpect , had very diligently ...
... some preferment designed for him had by Addison's intervention been withheld . Lord Warwick was a young man of very irregular life , and perhaps of loofe opinions . Addifon , for whom he did not want refpect , had very diligently ...
Page 66
... some of his guards or domesticks must necef- " << farily be supposed to be within hearing ; is a thing that is so far from being probable , that " it is hardly poffible . " Sempronius , in the fecond Act , comes " back once more in the ...
... some of his guards or domesticks must necef- " << farily be supposed to be within hearing ; is a thing that is so far from being probable , that " it is hardly poffible . " Sempronius , in the fecond Act , comes " back once more in the ...
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... some reason , that from fuch a performance perfection cannot be ex- pected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his cenfurers , which he expreffes in language fuch as Cheapfide easily furnished . I am not free of the Poets ...
... some reason , that from fuch a performance perfection cannot be ex- pected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his cenfurers , which he expreffes in language fuch as Cheapfide easily furnished . I am not free of the Poets ...
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