The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen21783 |
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... lived in familiarity with the highest per- fons of his time . It is related by Carte of the duke of Ormond , that he used often to pafs a night with Dryden , and those with whom Dryden conforted : who they were , Carte has not told ...
... lived in familiarity with the highest per- fons of his time . It is related by Carte of the duke of Ormond , that he used often to pafs a night with Dryden , and those with whom Dryden conforted : who they were , Carte has not told ...
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... lived , by the ufe of French words , which had then crept into converfation ; fuch as fraicheur for cool- ness , fougue for turbulence , and a few more , none of which the language has incorporated or retained . They continue only where ...
... lived , by the ufe of French words , which had then crept into converfation ; fuch as fraicheur for cool- ness , fougue for turbulence , and a few more , none of which the language has incorporated or retained . They continue only where ...
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... lived ; for though " 6 nature , as he objects , is the fame in all places , and reafon too the fame ; yet the " climate , the age , the difpofition of the 66 66 people , to whom a poet writes , may be fo different , that what pleased ...
... lived ; for though " 6 nature , as he objects , is the fame in all places , and reafon too the fame ; yet the " climate , the age , the difpofition of the 66 66 people , to whom a poet writes , may be fo different , that what pleased ...
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... lived viciously , in an age when he that would be thought a Wit was afraid to fay his prayers ; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life , was furely condemned and reformed by his better judgment . In 1683 , being ...
... lived viciously , in an age when he that would be thought a Wit was afraid to fay his prayers ; and whatever might have been bad in the first part of his life , was furely condemned and reformed by his better judgment . In 1683 , being ...
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... lived to his seventy- ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 . Burnet is not very favourable to his me- mory ; but he and Burnet were old rivals . On fome publick occafion they both preach- ed before the houfe of commons . There prevailed ...
... lived to his seventy- ninth year , and died May 20 , 1713 . Burnet is not very favourable to his me- mory ; but he and Burnet were old rivals . On fome publick occafion they both preach- ed before the houfe of commons . There prevailed ...
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