The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen1W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to relate , " That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ” This is an instance of the natural ...
... soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to relate , " That he had this defect in his memory at that time , that his teachers never could bring it to retain the ordinary rules of grammar . ” This is an instance of the natural ...
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... Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers , who were sent out in quest of another man ; and , being examined , was put into confinement , from which he was not dismissed without the ...
... Soon after his return to London , he was seized by some messengers of the usurping powers , who were sent out in quest of another man ; and , being examined , was put into confinement , from which he was not dismissed without the ...
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... soon obtained , by the interest of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit , it will be solicitously asked , if he now ...
... soon obtained , by the interest of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , such a lease of the queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit , it will be solicitously asked , if he now ...
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... soon the market fails ; Your sex lives faster than the males ; And if , to measure age's span , The sober Julian were th ' account of man , Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and disgusting hyperboles ...
... soon the market fails ; Your sex lives faster than the males ; And if , to measure age's span , The sober Julian were th ' account of man , Whilst you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and disgusting hyperboles ...
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... soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sanna- zaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Vesbia curis ...
... soon grows wearisome . Cowley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might have found it full - blown in modern Italy . Thus Sanna- zaro : Aspice quam variis distringar Vesbia curis ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical ..., Volumen1 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1821 |
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