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... received the laft proof of his master's confidence , by being appointed one of the commiffioners for ecclefiafti- cal affairs . On the critical day , when the 2 cal 6 SP RAT . of Westminster, and in 1684 bishop of ...
... received the laft proof of his master's confidence , by being appointed one of the commiffioners for ecclefiafti- cal affairs . On the critical day , when the 2 cal 6 SP RAT . of Westminster, and in 1684 bishop of ...
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... received , in my opinion , not lefs praise than it deferves . Blank verfe , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly fup- port itfelf without bold figures and ftriking images . A poem ...
... received , in my opinion , not lefs praise than it deferves . Blank verfe , left merely to its numbers , has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly fup- port itfelf without bold figures and ftriking images . A poem ...
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... with Dr. Burnet , to whom he laid open with great freedom the tenour of his opinions , and the courfe of his life , and from whom he received fuch con- viction 4 viction of the reasonableness of moral duty , and the ROCHESTER .
... with Dr. Burnet , to whom he laid open with great freedom the tenour of his opinions , and the courfe of his life , and from whom he received fuch con- viction 4 viction of the reasonableness of moral duty , and the ROCHESTER .
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... receiving a reward , His crime was for being a felon in verse , And prefenting his theft to the king ; The firft was a trick not uncommon or Yafcarce , Sour But the laft was an impudent thing : Yet what he had ftol'n was fo little worth ...
... receiving a reward , His crime was for being a felon in verse , And prefenting his theft to the king ; The firft was a trick not uncommon or Yafcarce , Sour But the laft was an impudent thing : Yet what he had ftol'n was fo little worth ...
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... the author of the Biographia , to have declared himielf of the party who had the honourable diftinction of High- churchmen . • 1 In 1766 he was received into the fa- mily of In YAL DE N.Y 5 The poet whom he was charged with P ...
... the author of the Biographia , to have declared himielf of the party who had the honourable diftinction of High- churchmen . • 1 In 1766 he was received into the fa- mily of In YAL DE N.Y 5 The poet whom he was charged with P ...
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Page 14 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 52 - James, whose skill in physic will be long remembered, and with David Garrick, whom I hoped to have gratified with this character of our common friend ; but what are the hopes of man ! I am...
Page 24 - Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind ; it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images.
Page 52 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
Page 18 - The lines are in themselves not perfect, for most of the words thus artfully opposed are to be understood simply on one side of the comparison, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language which does not express intellectual operations by material images, into that language they cannot be translated.
Page 5 - I never heard of the man in my life, yet I find your name as a subscriber. He is too grave a poet for me; and I think among the Mediocrists, in prose as well as verse.
Page 24 - Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear...
Page 11 - Having been compelled by his necessities to contract debts, and hunted, as is supposed, by the terriers of the law, he retired to a publick house on Tower-hill, where he is said to have died of want ; or, as it is related by one of his biographers, by swallowing, after a long fast, a piece of bread which charity had supplied. He went out, as is reported, almost naked, in the rage of hunger, and, finding a gentleman in a neighbouring coffeehouse, asked him for a shilling.
Page 14 - That fervile path thou nobly doft decline, "• Of tracing word by word, and line by line. " Thofe are the labour'd births of...