The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. With Critical Observations on Their Works. By Samuel Johnson. A New Edition, Corrected ..Nichols and Son, 1801 |
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... foon diftin- guifhed . He was wont , fays 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 graminar . " 1 This is an inftance of the ...
... foon diftin- guifhed . He was wont , fays 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 graminar . " 1 This is an inftance of the ...
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... foon obtained , by the in- tereft of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , fuch a leafe of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be fo- licitoufly afked , if he now ...
... foon obtained , by the in- tereft of the earl of St. Alban's and the duke of Buckingham , fuch a leafe of the Queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be fo- licitoufly afked , if he now ...
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... foon the market fails , Your fex lives fafter than the males ; And if to measure age's span , The fober Julian were th ' account of man , Whilft you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and difgufting hyperboles ...
... foon the market fails , Your fex lives fafter than the males ; And if to measure age's span , The fober Julian were th ' account of man , Whilft you live by the fleet Gregorian . CLEIVELAND . Of enormous and difgufting hyperboles ...
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... for a moment , but , being unnatural , it foon grows wearifome . Cow- ley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might 1 have found it full - blown in modern Italy have 42 COWLE Y.
... for a moment , but , being unnatural , it foon grows wearifome . Cow- ley delighted in it , as much as if he had invented it ; but , not to mention the ancients , he might 1 have found it full - blown in modern Italy have 42 COWLE Y.
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... foon refigned that charge , and re- treated to Oxford , where , in 1643 , he published " Cooper's Hill . " This poem had fuch reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excel- lence . A report was fpread , that ...
... foon refigned that charge , and re- treated to Oxford , where , in 1643 , he published " Cooper's Hill . " This poem had fuch reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excel- lence . A report was fpread , that ...
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