The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... elegance or literature ; his study was only war ; yet by a choice of mi- nifters , whose difpofition was very different from his own , he produced , without intenti- on , a very liberal patronage to poetry . Addi- son was careffed both ...
... elegance or literature ; his study was only war ; yet by a choice of mi- nifters , whose difpofition was very different from his own , he produced , without intenti- on , a very liberal patronage to poetry . Addi- son was careffed both ...
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... elegance of language , and variegation of profe and verse , however gains upon the reader ; and the book , though a while neglected , became in time fo much the favourite of the public , that before it was reprinted it rose to five ...
... elegance of language , and variegation of profe and verse , however gains upon the reader ; and the book , though a while neglected , became in time fo much the favourite of the public , that before it was reprinted it rose to five ...
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... elegance , and which , if they are now lefs read , are neglected only because they have effected that reformation which their authors intended , and their precepts now are no long- er wanted . Their usefulness to the age in which they ...
... elegance , and which , if they are now lefs read , are neglected only because they have effected that reformation which their authors intended , and their precepts now are no long- er wanted . Their usefulness to the age in which they ...
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... elegance , and the fame variety , till fome unlucky fparkle from a Tory paper fet Steele's politicks on fire , and wit at once blazed into faction . He was foon too hot for neutral topicks , and quitted the Guardian to write the ...
... elegance , and the fame variety , till fome unlucky fparkle from a Tory paper fet Steele's politicks on fire , and wit at once blazed into faction . He was foon too hot for neutral topicks , and quitted the Guardian to write the ...
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... elegance in the lan- guage . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Chriftian Religion , of which part was pub- lifhed after his death ; and he defigned to have made a new poetical verfion of the Pfalms . These pious ...
... elegance in the lan- guage . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Chriftian Religion , of which part was pub- lifhed after his death ; and he defigned to have made a new poetical verfion of the Pfalms . These pious ...
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