Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... received from the best authors he read , which it always preserved in their primitive strength and amiable order . 6 ' He had a quickness of apprehension and vivacity of under- standing which easily took in and surmounted the most ...
... received from the best authors he read , which it always preserved in their primitive strength and amiable order . 6 ' He had a quickness of apprehension and vivacity of under- standing which easily took in and surmounted the most ...
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... received from Smith , that Clarendon's History was , in its publication , corrupted by Aldrich , Smalridge , and Atterbury , and that Smith was employed to forge and insert the alterations ' . This story was published triumphantly by ...
... received from Smith , that Clarendon's History was , in its publication , corrupted by Aldrich , Smalridge , and Atterbury , and that Smith was employed to forge and insert the alterations ' . This story was published triumphantly by ...
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... by others , and dis- pensed from all necessity of providing for himself . ' Post , SAVAGE , 336 . Ante , SMITH , 46 . Boswell's Johnson , i . 81 , 102 . 3 never received my notions with contempt . He was a 20 EDMUND SMITH.
... by others , and dis- pensed from all necessity of providing for himself . ' Post , SAVAGE , 336 . Ante , SMITH , 46 . Boswell's Johnson , i . 81 , 102 . 3 never received my notions with contempt . He was a 20 EDMUND SMITH.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. never received my notions with contempt . He was a Whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart . I honoured him , and he endured ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. never received my notions with contempt . He was a Whig , with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart . I honoured him , and he endured ...
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... received the last proof of his master's confidence , by being appointed one of the commissioners for ecclesiastical affairs . On the critical day , when the Declaration distinguished the true sons of the church of England , he stood ...
... received the last proof of his master's confidence , by being appointed one of the commissioners for ecclesiastical affairs . On the critical day , when the Declaration distinguished the true sons of the church of England , he stood ...
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