Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... character when he affumed it , first with decency , and afterwards with ho nour . " They who think ill of Young's mora lity in the early part of his life , may per- haps be wrong , but Tindal could not err in his opinion of Young's ...
... character when he affumed it , first with decency , and afterwards with ho nour . " They who think ill of Young's mora lity in the early part of his life , may per- haps be wrong , but Tindal could not err in his opinion of Young's ...
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... let him repent his paffion for the stage ; —and the particular praise bestowed on Othello and Oroonoko feems to fhew that fome fuch character as Zanga was even then in in contemplation . The affectionate men- tion of the death 14 YOUNG .
... let him repent his paffion for the stage ; —and the particular praise bestowed on Othello and Oroonoko feems to fhew that fome fuch character as Zanga was even then in in contemplation . The affectionate men- tion of the death 14 YOUNG .
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... character we might have prefumed , almoft without evidence , that Young went to Ireland . From his Letter to Richardfon on Origi- nal Compofition , it is clear he was , at fome period of his life , in that country . " I " remember ...
... character we might have prefumed , almoft without evidence , that Young went to Ireland . From his Letter to Richardfon on Origi- nal Compofition , it is clear he was , at fome period of his life , in that country . " I " remember ...
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... father's days , faved him the trouble of feigning a character com- pletely deteftable , and fucceeded at last in bringing his grey hairs with forrow to the grave . The The humanity of the world , little fa- tisfied with YOUN G. 61.
... father's days , faved him the trouble of feigning a character com- pletely deteftable , and fucceeded at last in bringing his grey hairs with forrow to the grave . The The humanity of the world , little fa- tisfied with YOUN G. 61.
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... for discovering that no fuch character as Lorenzo ever yet difgraced human nature , or broke a father's heart . Yet would thefe admirers of the fublime and and terrible be offended , fhould you fet them down 62 YOUNG .
... for discovering that no fuch character as Lorenzo ever yet difgraced human nature , or broke a father's heart . Yet would thefe admirers of the fublime and and terrible be offended , fhould you fet them down 62 YOUNG .
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