Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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... mean to give , many of which are within the time of the Act of Queen Anne , which Martin and Bell cannot give , as they have no property in them ; the proprietors are almost all the booksellers in London , of conse- quence . ' Boswell's ...
... mean to give , many of which are within the time of the Act of Queen Anne , which Martin and Bell cannot give , as they have no property in them ; the proprietors are almost all the booksellers in London , of conse- quence . ' Boswell's ...
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... mean by Genius . The rest they gave them- selves . ' See also Boswell's Johnson , ii . 437 ; John . Misc . i . 314 ; ii . 287 ; and Gibbon's Memoirs , pp . 143 , 303 . Two Discourses on the Art of Criticism as it relates to Painting ...
... mean by Genius . The rest they gave them- selves . ' See also Boswell's Johnson , ii . 437 ; John . Misc . i . 314 ; ii . 287 ; and Gibbon's Memoirs , pp . 143 , 303 . Two Discourses on the Art of Criticism as it relates to Painting ...
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... means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion ...
... means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability and the variety of characters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion ...
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... means of improv- ing estates is as easy and certain in agriculture as in any other track of commerce . ' Ib . ix . 41 . In his will , written four months later , he says of his estate , ' which it has pleased God to bestow upon me much ...
... means of improv- ing estates is as easy and certain in agriculture as in any other track of commerce . ' Ib . ix . 41 . In his will , written four months later , he says of his estate , ' which it has pleased God to bestow upon me much ...
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... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation ...
... means exility of particles , is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation ...
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