General Biography: Or Lives, Critical And Historical, Of The Most Eminent Persons Of All Ages, Countries, Conditions And Professions, Arranged According To Alphabetical Order, Volume 9Robinson, 1814 - 644 pages |
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... writers mention two Sapphos , one of Eresa , the other of Mitylene , the first the lover of Phaon , the second the ... writer , was born in 1604 at Hermanville near Caen . He received his education at that city , and then came to Paris ...
... writers mention two Sapphos , one of Eresa , the other of Mitylene , the first the lover of Phaon , the second the ... writer , was born in 1604 at Hermanville near Caen . He received his education at that city , and then came to Paris ...
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... writer , son of Saurin the geometrician , was one of the numerous deserters to polite literature from the law , in which he had taken his de- grees . His tragedy of " Spartacus , " acted at Paris in 1760 , raised him to reputation . It ...
... writer , son of Saurin the geometrician , was one of the numerous deserters to polite literature from the law , in which he had taken his de- grees . His tragedy of " Spartacus , " acted at Paris in 1760 , raised him to reputation . It ...
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... writer would have given a different estimate of the moral and lite- rary merits of his subject , had he judged of them at a later period , and without the parti- ality of an acquaintance . Johnson's Life of Sa- vage . Anderson's Poets ...
... writer would have given a different estimate of the moral and lite- rary merits of his subject , had he judged of them at a later period , and without the parti- ality of an acquaintance . Johnson's Life of Sa- vage . Anderson's Poets ...
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... writer . His hours of study were in the silence of the night , probably in consequence of habits of irregularity ... writers , and published at Tubingen ; and also an annual poetical almanac . He composed another tragedy entitled " The ...
... writer . His hours of study were in the silence of the night , probably in consequence of habits of irregularity ... writers , and published at Tubingen ; and also an annual poetical almanac . He composed another tragedy entitled " The ...
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... writer , was born at Cronstadt , in Transyl- vania , in 1679. After laying the grounds of his education at the academy of Jena , at which he was placed in 1700 , he removed to Witten- berg and Greifswald , and applied there , for two ...
... writer , was born at Cronstadt , in Transyl- vania , in 1679. After laying the grounds of his education at the academy of Jena , at which he was placed in 1700 , he removed to Witten- berg and Greifswald , and applied there , for two ...
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