The lives of the most eminent English poetsJ. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son ... [and 36 others in London], 1787 |
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... excellence . My business is only with his poems . He confidered Cowley as a model ; and fuppofed that as he was imi- tated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but Pindarick liberty was to be expected . There is in his few ...
... excellence . My business is only with his poems . He confidered Cowley as a model ; and fuppofed that as he was imi- tated , perfection was approached . Nothing therefore but Pindarick liberty was to be expected . There is in his few ...
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... excellence , and yet to have coft him very little labour . At fixteen he had , in his father's opinion , made ad- vances in learning fufficient to qualify him for the study of law , and was entered a student of the Mid- dle Temple ...
... excellence , and yet to have coft him very little labour . At fixteen he had , in his father's opinion , made ad- vances in learning fufficient to qualify him for the study of law , and was entered a student of the Mid- dle Temple ...
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... excellence . Of very extensive learning he has indeed given no proofs . He feems to have had small acquaintance with the fciences , and to have read little except Latin and French ; but of the Latin poets his Dialogues on Medals fhew ...
... excellence . Of very extensive learning he has indeed given no proofs . He feems to have had small acquaintance with the fciences , and to have read little except Latin and French ; but of the Latin poets his Dialogues on Medals fhew ...
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... excellence * . Knowledge of mankind indeed , less ex- tenfive than that of Addifon , will fhew , that to write , and to live , are very different . Many who praife vir- tue , do no more than praise it . Yet it is reafonable to believe ...
... excellence * . Knowledge of mankind indeed , less ex- tenfive than that of Addifon , will fhew , that to write , and to live , are very different . Many who praife vir- tue , do no more than praise it . Yet it is reafonable to believe ...
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... excellence , he rarely finks into dullness , and is ftill more rarely en- tangled in abfurdity . He did not truft his powers enough to be negligent . There is in most of his com- pofitions a calmnefs and equability , deliberate and ...
... excellence , he rarely finks into dullness , and is ftill more rarely en- tangled in abfurdity . He did not truft his powers enough to be negligent . There is in most of his com- pofitions a calmnefs and equability , deliberate and ...
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