The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... appear- ing weak and unlikely to live , he was chrif- tened the fame day . After the ufual domestick education , which , from the character of his father , may be reasonably fuppofed to have given him strong impreffions of piety , he ...
... appear- ing weak and unlikely to live , he was chrif- tened the fame day . After the ufual domestick education , which , from the character of his father , may be reasonably fuppofed to have given him strong impreffions of piety , he ...
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... appears to be a Tory , or , as it is gently ex- preffed , an adherent to the landed interest , is opposed Sir Andrew Freeport , a new man , a wealthy merchant , zealous for the moneyed intereft , and a Whig . Of this contrariety of ...
... appears to be a Tory , or , as it is gently ex- preffed , an adherent to the landed interest , is opposed Sir Andrew Freeport , a new man , a wealthy merchant , zealous for the moneyed intereft , and a Whig . Of this contrariety of ...
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... appearing to revenge himself . He therefore published a Narrative of the Madness of John Dennis ; a performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more defire of vexing the critick than ...
... appearing to revenge himself . He therefore published a Narrative of the Madness of John Dennis ; a performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more defire of vexing the critick than ...
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... appear . His Trial of Count Tariff , written to expose the Treaty of Com- merce with France , lived no longer than the question that produced it . Not long afterwards an attempt was made to revive the Spectator , at a time indeed by no ...
... appear . His Trial of Count Tariff , written to expose the Treaty of Com- merce with France , lived no longer than the question that produced it . Not long afterwards an attempt was made to revive the Spectator , at a time indeed by no ...
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... appears from his various pictures of the world , that , with all his bafhfulness , he had converfed with many diftinct claffes of men , had furveyed their ways with very diligent ob- fervation , and marked with great acutenefs the ...
... appears from his various pictures of the world , that , with all his bafhfulness , he had converfed with many diftinct claffes of men , had furveyed their ways with very diligent ob- fervation , and marked with great acutenefs the ...
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