Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... seems to prove that the father did not leave behind him much wealth . On the 23d of April 1714 , Young took his degree of Batchelor of Civil Laws , and his Doctor's degree on the 10th of June 1719 . A 4 Soon Soon after he was elected at ...
... seems to prove that the father did not leave behind him much wealth . On the 23d of April 1714 , Young took his degree of Batchelor of Civil Laws , and his Doctor's degree on the 10th of June 1719 . A 4 Soon Soon after he was elected at ...
Page 42
... seems to have been raised from the two anfwers of Lord Burghley and Sir Philip Sidney in Spenfer's Life . When Young was writing a tragedy , Grafton is faid to have sent him a human fkull , with a candle in it , as a proper lamp ...
... seems to have been raised from the two anfwers of Lord Burghley and Sir Philip Sidney in Spenfer's Life . When Young was writing a tragedy , Grafton is faid to have sent him a human fkull , with a candle in it , as a proper lamp ...
Page 43
... : Oh how I long , enkindled by the theme , In deep Eternity to launch thy name ! The bounty of the former reign seems to have been continued , poffibly in- creased , 1 creased , in this . Whatever it was , the YOUNG . 43.
... : Oh how I long , enkindled by the theme , In deep Eternity to launch thy name ! The bounty of the former reign seems to have been continued , poffibly in- creased , 1 creased , in this . Whatever it was , the YOUNG . 43.
Page 53
... seems that his extemporaneous reproof ( if it must be extemporaneous ) , for what few will now affirm Voltaire to have deferved any re- proof , was fomething longer than a dif- tich , and fomething more gentle than this diftich . No ...
... seems that his extemporaneous reproof ( if it must be extemporaneous ) , for what few will now affirm Voltaire to have deferved any re- proof , was fomething longer than a dif- tich , and fomething more gentle than this diftich . No ...
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... seems often to have happened in thofe times to the fa- vourites of the great , without attention to his fortune , which indeed was in no , great need of improvement . Parnell , who did not want ambition , or vanity , was defirous to ...
... seems often to have happened in thofe times to the fa- vourites of the great , without attention to his fortune , which indeed was in no , great need of improvement . Parnell , who did not want ambition , or vanity , was defirous to ...
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