LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 35
... continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a de- ciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually stealing from his brows . He ...
... continued to delight through all the changes of human manners , he contented himself with a de- ciduous laurel , of which the verdure in its spring was bright and gay , but which time has been continually stealing from his brows . He ...
Page 58
... continued ; and , to raise his character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour : " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if " there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant - general in " Sir William ...
... continued ; and , to raise his character again , has a mind to invest him with military splendour : " He is much mistaken , " he says , " if " there was not about this time a design of making him an adjutant - general in " Sir William ...
Page 62
... continued it , says Philips , almost to his dying - day ; but the papers were so discomposed and deficient , that they could not be fitted for the press . The compilers of the Latin dictionary printed at Cambridge , had the use of those ...
... continued it , says Philips , almost to his dying - day ; but the papers were so discomposed and deficient , that they could not be fitted for the press . The compilers of the Latin dictionary printed at Cambridge , had the use of those ...
Page 72
... continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells us , " that though our author had daily about him one or " other to read , some person of ...
... continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives the following account : Mr. Philips tells us , " that though our author had daily about him one or " other to read , some person of ...
Page 73
... continued to the Norman invasion . Why he should have given the first part , which he seems not to believe , and which is universally rejected , it is difficult to con- jecture . The style is harsh ; but it has something of rough vigour ...
... continued to the Norman invasion . Why he should have given the first part , which he seems not to believe , and which is universally rejected , it is difficult to con- jecture . The style is harsh ; but it has something of rough vigour ...
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