The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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... opinion , balanced by the anonymous proteftation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily difowned * . * See Sheridan's Life , edit . 1784 , p . 525 , where are some re- marks on this paffage . R. For For ...
... opinion , balanced by the anonymous proteftation prefixed , in which all knowledge of the French book is peremptorily difowned * . * See Sheridan's Life , edit . 1784 , p . 525 , where are some re- marks on this paffage . R. For For ...
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... opinion with the " October Club ; " but it was not in his power to quicken the tardinefs of Harley , whom he ftimu- lated as much as he could , but with little effect . He that knows not whither to go , is in no hafte to move . Harley ...
... opinion with the " October Club ; " but it was not in his power to quicken the tardinefs of Harley , whom he ftimu- lated as much as he could , but with little effect . He that knows not whither to go , is in no hafte to move . Harley ...
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... opinion , that all was loft . This de- nunciation was contradicted by Oxford ; but Boling- broke whispered that he was right . Before this violent diffenfion had shattered the Mi- niftry , Swift had published , in the beginning of the ...
... opinion , that all was loft . This de- nunciation was contradicted by Oxford ; but Boling- broke whispered that he was right . Before this violent diffenfion had shattered the Mi- niftry , Swift had published , in the beginning of the ...
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... a Lady on her " Marriage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his opinion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admitted ; for , if his general thoughts on women were were fuch as he exhibits , a very little fenfe 30 Ś W IF T.
... a Lady on her " Marriage , " may be allowed to doubt whether his opinion of female excellence ought implicitly to be admitted ; for , if his general thoughts on women were were fuch as he exhibits , a very little fenfe 30 Ś W IF T.
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... opinion , made proper ; and nothing fell from his pen in vain . In a fhort poem on the Prefbyterians , whom he always regarded with deteftation , he bestowed one ftricture upon Bettesworth , a lawyer eminent for his infolence to the ...
... opinion , made proper ; and nothing fell from his pen in vain . In a fhort poem on the Prefbyterians , whom he always regarded with deteftation , he bestowed one ftricture upon Bettesworth , a lawyer eminent for his infolence to the ...
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