The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... ment , fometimes with mirth . In argument he had many equals ; but his humour was fingular and matchlefs . Bigotry itself must be delighted with the Tory Foxhunter . There are however some strokes less elegant , and lefs decent ; fuch ...
... ment , fometimes with mirth . In argument he had many equals ; but his humour was fingular and matchlefs . Bigotry itself must be delighted with the Tory Foxhunter . There are however some strokes less elegant , and lefs decent ; fuch ...
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... ment , of which both friends and enemies knew the true reason , with an account of declining health , and the neceffity of recefs and quiet . He now returned to his vocation , and began to plan literary occupations for his future life ...
... ment , of which both friends and enemies knew the true reason , with an account of declining health , and the neceffity of recefs and quiet . He now returned to his vocation , and began to plan literary occupations for his future life ...
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... his friend ; but contented him- felf with quoting fome lines of Cato , which were at once detection and reproof . The bill was laid afide during that feffion , and Addison died before the next , in which its commit- ment died 38 ADD ISO N.
... his friend ; but contented him- felf with quoting fome lines of Cato , which were at once detection and reproof . The bill was laid afide during that feffion , and Addison died before the next , in which its commit- ment died 38 ADD ISO N.
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... ment was rejected by two hundred fixty - five to one hundred seventy - seven . Every reader furely muft regret that these two illuftrious friends , after so many years past in confidence and endearment , in unity of intereft ...
... ment was rejected by two hundred fixty - five to one hundred seventy - seven . Every reader furely muft regret that these two illuftrious friends , after so many years past in confidence and endearment , in unity of intereft ...
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... ment , and by that want was often obftructed and diftreffed ; that he was oppreffed by an im- proper and ungraceful timidity , every teftimony concurs to prove ; but Chesterfield's reprefen- tation is doubtlefs hyperbolical . That man ...
... ment , and by that want was often obftructed and diftreffed ; that he was oppreffed by an im- proper and ungraceful timidity , every teftimony concurs to prove ; but Chesterfield's reprefen- tation is doubtlefs hyperbolical . That man ...
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