The Lives of the English Poets: And a Criticism of Their Works, Volume 2Wilson, 1781 |
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... written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barome- ter ; and a Bowling - green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar , affords great ...
... written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The Barome- ter ; and a Bowling - green . When the matter is low or scanty , a dead language , in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar , affords great ...
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... written at home . His 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 ...
... written at home . His 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 ...
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... 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 juftified their ...
... 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 juftified their ...
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... written , is fufficiently attest- ed by the translations which almost all the na- tions of Europe were in hafte to obtain . This fpecies of instruction was continued , and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyere's ...
... written , is fufficiently attest- ed by the translations which almost all the na- tions of Europe were in hafte to obtain . This fpecies of instruction was continued , and perhaps advanced , by the French ; among whom La Bruyere's ...
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... to Mr. Addison : it is to be wifhed that it could be found , for the fake of comparing their version of the foliloquy with that of Bland . Spence . A tra- A tragedy was written on the fame subject by Des 26 ADDIS O N.
... to Mr. Addison : it is to be wifhed that it could be found , for the fake of comparing their version of the foliloquy with that of Bland . Spence . A tra- A tragedy was written on the fame subject by Des 26 ADDIS O N.
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