The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... 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 was committed to the care of Mr. Naifh at Am- brofbury , and ...
... 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 was committed to the care of Mr. Naifh at Am- brofbury , and ...
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... fame time he compofed the argu- ments prefixed to the feveral books of Dryden's Virgil , and produced an Effay on the Geor- gicks , juvenile , fuperficial , and uninstructive , without much either of the scholar's learning or the ...
... fame time he compofed the argu- ments prefixed to the feveral books of Dryden's Virgil , and produced an Effay on the Geor- gicks , juvenile , fuperficial , and uninstructive , without much either of the scholar's learning or the ...
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... fame kind , but written with less levity , upon a more regular plan , and published daily . Such an undertaking fhewed the writers not to distrust their own copiousness of materials or facility of compofition , and their performance ...
... fame kind , but written with less levity , upon a more regular plan , and published daily . Such an undertaking fhewed the writers not to distrust their own copiousness of materials or facility of compofition , and their performance ...
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... fame tendency : they were published at a time when two parties , loud , restless , and violent , each with plaufible declarations , and each perhaps without any diftinct terminati- on of its views , were agitating the nation ; to minds ...
... fame tendency : they were published at a time when two parties , loud , restless , and violent , each with plaufible declarations , and each perhaps without any diftinct terminati- on of its views , were agitating the nation ; to minds ...
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And a Criticism of Their Works Samuel Johnson. A tragedy was written on the fame 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 ...
And a Criticism of Their Works Samuel Johnson. A tragedy was written on the fame 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 ...
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