LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 40
... appears afterwards to have changed his mind , for in the verses on the government of Cromwell he inserts them liberally with great happiness . After so much criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten ...
... appears afterwards to have changed his mind , for in the verses on the government of Cromwell he inserts them liberally with great happiness . After so much criticism on his Poems , the Essays which accompany them must not be forgotten ...
Page 42
... appears , whenever any serious ques- tion comes before him , to have been a man of piety , he consecrated his poeti- cal powers to religion , and made a metrical version of the psalms of David . In this attempt he has failed ; but in ...
... appears , whenever any serious ques- tion comes before him , to have been a man of piety , he consecrated his poeti- cal powers to religion , and made a metrical version of the psalms of David . In this attempt he has failed ; but in ...
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... Bread- street , Dec. 9 , 1608 , between six and seven in the morning . Uis father appears to have been very solicitous about his education ; for he was instructed at first by private private tuition under the care of Thomas Young , who.
... Bread- street , Dec. 9 , 1608 , between six and seven in the morning . Uis father appears to have been very solicitous about his education ; for he was instructed at first by private private tuition under the care of Thomas Young , who.
Page 48
... appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , remark what I think is true , that ...
... appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , remark what I think is true , that ...
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... appears in a letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and plausible ...
... appears in a letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and plausible ...
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