The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... death of Ca- to , he had , as is faid , planned a tragedy in the time of his travels , and had for feveral years the four first acts finished , which were fhewn to fuch as were likely to fpread their admira- tion . They were feen by ...
... death of Ca- to , he had , as is faid , planned a tragedy in the time of his travels , and had for feveral years the four first acts finished , which were fhewn to fuch as were likely to fpread their admira- tion . They were feen by ...
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... death , declared him the author of the Drum- this however he did not know to be true by any cogent teftimony ; for when Addison put the play into his hands , he only told him it was the work of a Gentleman in the Company ; mer ; and and ...
... death , declared him the author of the Drum- this however he did not know to be true by any cogent teftimony ; for when Addison put the play into his hands , he only told him it was the work of a Gentleman in the Company ; mer ; and and ...
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... death of that which he could not have killed . Every reader of every party , fince perfonal malice is past , and the papers which once inflamed the nation are read only as effufions of wit , must wish for more of the Whig Examiners ...
... death of that which he could not have killed . Every reader of every party , fince perfonal malice is past , and the papers which once inflamed the nation are read only as effufions of wit , must wish for more of the Whig Examiners ...
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... death of So- crates ; a story of which , as Tickell remarks , the bafis is narrow , and to which I know not how love could have been appended . There would however have been no want either of vir- tue in the fentiments , or elegance in ...
... death of So- crates ; a story of which , as Tickell remarks , the bafis is narrow , and to which I know not how love could have been appended . There would however have been no want either of vir- tue in the fentiments , or elegance in ...
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... death - bed to his friend Mr. Craggs , he died June 17 , 1719 , at Holland- house , leaving no child but a daughter . Of his virtue it is a fufficient teftimony , that the refentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime . He ...
... death - bed to his friend Mr. Craggs , he died June 17 , 1719 , at Holland- house , leaving no child but a daughter . Of his virtue it is a fufficient teftimony , that the refentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime . He ...
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