The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonT. Longman, 1794 - English poetry |
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... thousand pounds ; for which , being confcientiously determined not to entrust it to the government , he found no better use than that of locking it up in a cheft , and taking from it what his expences required ; and his life was long ...
... thousand pounds ; for which , being confcientiously determined not to entrust it to the government , he found no better use than that of locking it up in a cheft , and taking from it what his expences required ; and his life was long ...
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... thousand copies as a numerous impreffion . Dennis was not his only cenfurer ; the zealous papifts thought the monks treated with too much contempt , and Erasmus too ftudioufly praised ; but to thefe objections he had not much regard ...
... thousand copies as a numerous impreffion . Dennis was not his only cenfurer ; the zealous papifts thought the monks treated with too much contempt , and Erasmus too ftudioufly praised ; but to thefe objections he had not much regard ...
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... thousand five hundred were firft printed , and five thousand a few weeks afterwards ; but indeed great numbers were neceffary to pro- duce confiderable profit , Pope , having now emitted his proposals , and engaged not only his own ...
... thousand five hundred were firft printed , and five thousand a few weeks afterwards ; but indeed great numbers were neceffary to pro- duce confiderable profit , Pope , having now emitted his proposals , and engaged not only his own ...
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... thousand verses , might have been dif- patched in less than three hundred and twenty days by fifty verfes in a day . The notes , compiled with the affiftance of his mer- cenaries , could not be fuppofed to require more time than the ...
... thousand verses , might have been dif- patched in less than three hundred and twenty days by fifty verfes in a day . The notes , compiled with the affiftance of his mer- cenaries , could not be fuppofed to require more time than the ...
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... thousand causes that can , and ten thoufand that cannot , be re- counted . Perhaps no extenfive and multi- farious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind . He that runs against Time , has ...
... thousand causes that can , and ten thoufand that cannot , be re- counted . Perhaps no extenfive and multi- farious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker's mind . He that runs against Time , has ...
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