The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... subject , defired him to propose it to fome better poet . Halifax told him that there was no encouragement for genius ; that worth- lefs men were unprofitably enriched with pub- lic money , without any care to find or em- ploy those ...
... subject , defired him to propose it to fome better poet . Halifax told him that there was no encouragement for genius ; that worth- lefs men were unprofitably enriched with pub- lic money , without any care to find or em- ploy those ...
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... subject be flight , the treatise likewife is short . The bufy may find time , and the idle may find patience . This mode of conveying cheap and easy knowledge began among us in the Civil War , when it was much the interest of either ...
... subject be flight , the treatise likewife is short . The bufy may find time , and the idle may find patience . This mode of conveying cheap and easy knowledge began among us in the Civil War , when it was much the interest of either ...
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... fent to Mr. Addison : it is to be wifhed that it could be found , for the fake of comparing their version of the foliloquy with that of Bland . Spence . A tra- A tragedy was written on the fame subject by Des 26 ADDIS O N.
... fent to Mr. Addison : it is to be wifhed that it could be found , for the fake of comparing their version of the foliloquy with that of Bland . Spence . A tra- A tragedy was written on the fame subject by Des 26 ADDIS O N.
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... subject by Des Champs , a French poet , which was tranflated , with a criticism on the English play . But the tranflator and the critick are now forgotten . Dennis lived on unanswered , and therefore little read : Addifon knew the ...
... subject by Des Champs , a French poet , which was tranflated , with a criticism on the English play . But the tranflator and the critick are now forgotten . Dennis lived on unanswered , and therefore little read : Addifon knew the ...
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... subject of their dispute was of great importance . The earl of Sunderland proposed an act called the Peerage Bill , by which the number of peers fhould be fixed , and the king restrained from any new creation of nobility , unless when ...
... subject of their dispute was of great importance . The earl of Sunderland proposed an act called the Peerage Bill , by which the number of peers fhould be fixed , and the king restrained from any new creation of nobility , unless when ...
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