The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... appears to have been very solicitous about his edu- cation ; for he was instructed at first by private tui- tion under the care of Thomas Young , who was afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have ...
... appears to have been very solicitous about his edu- cation ; for he was instructed at first by private tui- tion under the care of Thomas Young , who was afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh , and of whom we have ...
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... appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the trans- lator of Polybius , remark , what I think is true ...
... appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice dis- cernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the trans- lator of Polybius , remark , what I think is true ...
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... appears in his writings . His scheme of education , inscribed to Hartlib , supersedes all academical instruction , being intended to comprise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon grammar , till ...
... appears in his writings . His scheme of education , inscribed to Hartlib , supersedes all academical instruction , being intended to comprise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon grammar , till ...
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... appears in a letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity , and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and ...
... appears in a letter to one of his friends , who had reproved his suspended and dilatory life , which he seems to have imputed to an insatiable curiosity , and fantastic luxury of various knowledge . To this he writes a cool and ...
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... appears to have exalted him in his own opinion , and confirmed him in the hope , that , by labour and intense study , which , ' says he , ' I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , ' he might ...
... appears to have exalted him in his own opinion , and confirmed him in the hope , that , by labour and intense study , which , ' says he , ' I take to be my portion in this life , joined with a strong propensity of nature , ' he might ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.