The lives of the most eminent English poets (concluded). Miscellaneous livesJ. Buckland, 1787 |
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... confidered as the model to be ftudied , and was impreffed with fuch veneration for his inftructer , that he perfuaded fome friends to take him to the coffee - house which Dryden frequented , and pleafed himself with having feen him ...
... confidered as the model to be ftudied , and was impreffed with fuch veneration for his inftructer , that he perfuaded fome friends to take him to the coffee - house which Dryden frequented , and pleafed himself with having feen him ...
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... confidered him with kindness , and vifited him a little time before he died . Another of his early correfpondents was Mr. Crom- well , of whom I have learned nothing particular but that he used to ride a hunting in a tye - wig . He was ...
... confidered him with kindness , and vifited him a little time before he died . Another of his early correfpondents was Mr. Crom- well , of whom I have learned nothing particular but that he used to ride a hunting in a tye - wig . He was ...
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... confidered as an inftance . of Addison's jealoufy ; for as he could not guess the conduct of the new defign , or the poffibilities of plea- fure comprised in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might very reasonably and ...
... confidered as an inftance . of Addison's jealoufy ; for as he could not guess the conduct of the new defign , or the poffibilities of plea- fure comprised in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might very reasonably and ...
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... confidered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning . To those who have fkill to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work , it must be very de- firable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations ...
... confidered as one of the great events in the annals of Learning . To those who have fkill to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work , it must be very de- firable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations ...
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... confidered as the most painful of all reflec- tions , the remembrance of a crime perpetrated in yain . The other circumftances of their quarrel were thus related by Pope * . " Philips feemed to have been encouraged to abufe me in coffee ...
... confidered as the most painful of all reflec- tions , the remembrance of a crime perpetrated in yain . The other circumftances of their quarrel were thus related by Pope * . " Philips feemed to have been encouraged to abufe me in coffee ...
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