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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... virtues of Tamerlane feem to have been arbitrarily affigned him by his poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion , however , of the time , was , to accumulate upon Lewis ...
... virtues of Tamerlane feem to have been arbitrarily affigned him by his poet , for I know not that history gives any other qualities than those which make a conqueror . The fashion , however , of the time , was , to accumulate upon Lewis ...
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... virtues , was to fall before a ty- rant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guefs . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted , left he should be thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated ...
... virtues , was to fall before a ty- rant . The fact is certain ; the motives we must guefs . Addison was , I believe ... virtue . Addison was frighted , left he should be thought a promoter of infurrection , and the line was liquidated ...
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... virtue in the fentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Chriftian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he defigned to have made a new poc- tical verfion of the ...
... virtue in the fentiments , or elegance in the language . He engaged in a nobler work , a defence of the Chriftian Religion , of which part was published after his death ; and he defigned to have made a new poc- tical verfion of the ...
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... virtue it is a fufficient teftimony , that the re- fentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime . He was not one of thofe who are praised only after death ; for his merit was fo generally acknow- ledged , that Swift , having ...
... virtue it is a fufficient teftimony , that the re- fentment of party has tranfmitted no charge of any crime . He was not one of thofe who are praised only after death ; for his merit was fo generally acknow- ledged , that Swift , having ...
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... virtue and religion . He not only made the proper use of wit himself , but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally fub- fervient to the cause of reafon and of truth . He has diffipated the prejudice that had long ...
... virtue and religion . He not only made the proper use of wit himself , but taught it to others ; and from his time it has been generally fub- fervient to the cause of reafon and of truth . He has diffipated the prejudice that had long ...
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