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Annual Register of World Events - Page 205
1800
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
...pure without fcrupulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always Equable, and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harmnefs and...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...fcriapulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always eafy, with-. out glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon never deviates from his track to (hatch a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentenccs. Addifon never deviates from his track to fnatcli a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harfhnefs and...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Parnell. Garth. Rowe ...

1795 - 846 pages
...the fame judicious and claffical critic, " never deviates from his track to fnatch agrace; he fecks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendor. His fentences have neither ftudied am. - ,-i.ii, nor afieâed brevity...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the ...

Biography - 1793 - 412 pages
...pure without fcrupulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration : always equable, and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon...innovations, His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendor. It feerns to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harlhnefs...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1794 - 450 pages
...pure without fcrupulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon never deviates from his track to match a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries no hazardous innovations. His page is always...
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Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and Illustrations

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon never deviated from his track to match a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments, and tries...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpedted Iplendour. " It feems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harflmefs...
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

Biography - 1798 - 666 pages
...and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon never deviates from his crack to fnatch a grace ; he feeks no ambitious ornaments,...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendour. It feems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harfhnefs...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1800 - 624 pages
...elaboration ; always equable, and always eaiy, without glowing words or pointed fentences. Addifon ne ver deviates from his track to fnatch a grace ; he feeks...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendor. u'ït feems to have been his principal endeavour to avoid all harflinefs...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...pure without fcrupulofity, and exact without apparent elaboration ; always equable, and always eafy, without glowing words or pointed fen'tences. Addifon...innovations. His page is always luminous, but never blazes in unexpected fplendour. It was apparently his principal endeavour to avoid all harfhnefs and...
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