LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 67
... conversation , attended him every afternoon , except on Sundays . Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib , had declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French , required that Elwood should learn ...
... conversation , attended him every afternoon , except on Sundays . Milton , who , in his letter to Hartlib , had declared , that to read Latin with an English mouth is as ill a hearing as Law French , required that Elwood should learn ...
Page 68
... conversation of a man so generally illustrious , that foreigners are reported , by Wood , to have visited the house in Bread - street where he was born . According to another account , he was seen in a small house , neatly enough ...
... conversation of a man so generally illustrious , that foreigners are reported , by Wood , to have visited the house in Bread - street where he was born . According to another account , he was seen in a small house , neatly enough ...
Page 98
... conversation . swer . It is indeed much more easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Every position makes way for an argument , and every objection dictates an an- When two disputants are engaged upon a complicated and ...
... conversation . swer . It is indeed much more easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Every position makes way for an argument , and every objection dictates an an- When two disputants are engaged upon a complicated and ...
Page 99
... conversation , and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge . When any work has been viewed and admired , the first question of in- telligent curiosity is , how was it performed ? Hudibras was not a ...
... conversation , and are added as proverbial axioms to the general stock of practical knowledge . When any work has been viewed and admired , the first question of in- telligent curiosity is , how was it performed ? Hudibras was not a ...
Page 115
... conversation , which the writer of the Life prefixed to his Works , who seems to have been well informed of facts , though he may sometimes err in chronology , has delivered as in- dubitably certain : Сс C C " He found Dr. Andrews ...
... conversation , which the writer of the Life prefixed to his Works , who seems to have been well informed of facts , though he may sometimes err in chronology , has delivered as in- dubitably certain : Сс C C " He found Dr. Andrews ...
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