The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 pages |
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... labours to the attention of the public . We trust it will be found , on examination , to comprise , in a condensed form , all that is essential on the subject . Every Poet of eminence is here included and the Reader will find the Lives ...
... labours to the attention of the public . We trust it will be found , on examination , to comprise , in a condensed form , all that is essential on the subject . Every Poet of eminence is here included and the Reader will find the Lives ...
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... labours , all the assistance which he received does not amount to five papers ; and that many of the most masterly of those unequalled essays were written on the spur of the occasion , and never seen entire by the author till they ...
... labours , all the assistance which he received does not amount to five papers ; and that many of the most masterly of those unequalled essays were written on the spur of the occasion , and never seen entire by the author till they ...
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... labour for the wants of the day ; but having been early in 1762 represented to the King as a very learned and good man without any certain pro- vision , his Majesty was pleased to grant him a pen- sion , which Lord Bute , then first ...
... labour for the wants of the day ; but having been early in 1762 represented to the King as a very learned and good man without any certain pro- vision , his Majesty was pleased to grant him a pen- sion , which Lord Bute , then first ...
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... labours to prove by a variety of arguments founded on precedents , that the expulsion of a member of the house of commons is equivalent to exclusion , and that no such calamity as the sub- version of the constitution was to be feared ...
... labours to prove by a variety of arguments founded on precedents , that the expulsion of a member of the house of commons is equivalent to exclusion , and that no such calamity as the sub- version of the constitution was to be feared ...
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... labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could supply ; that he was the first who imparted to English numbers the enthusiasm of the greater ode , and the gaiety of the ...
... labours a mind replete with learning , and that his pages are embellished with all the ornaments which books could supply ; that he was the first who imparted to English numbers the enthusiasm of the greater ode , and the gaiety of the ...
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