The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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... appearance a private man , he was treated with confidence by Lewis , who sent him with a letter to the Queen ... appeared , by the debts which he contracted , that his remittances were not punctually made . On the first of August ...
... appearance a private man , he was treated with confidence by Lewis , who sent him with a letter to the Queen ... appeared , by the debts which he contracted , that his remittances were not punctually made . On the first of August ...
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... appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet , nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues , except the general degra- dation of human ...
... appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet , nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues , except the general degra- dation of human ...
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... appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called " In- cognita , or Love and ...
... appeared very early , as he very early felt that force of imagination , and possessed that copiousness of sentiment , by which intellectual pleasure can be given . His first performance was a novel , called " In- cognita , or Love and ...
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... appearance of tendency to puritanical malignity . This danger , however , was worn away by time ; and Col- lier , a fierce and implacable nonjuror , knew that an attack upon the theatre would never make him suspected for a puritan ; he ...
... appearance of tendency to puritanical malignity . This danger , however , was worn away by time ; and Col- lier , a fierce and implacable nonjuror , knew that an attack upon the theatre would never make him suspected for a puritan ; he ...
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... appearance of more circumspection ; it wants neither harmony of numbers , accuracy of thought , nor elegance of diction ; it has either been written with great care , or , what cannot be imagined of so long a work , with such felicity ...
... appearance of more circumspection ; it wants neither harmony of numbers , accuracy of thought , nor elegance of diction ; it has either been written with great care , or , what cannot be imagined of so long a work , with such felicity ...
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