Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... himself been educated . At this school Edward Young remained till the election after his eighteenth birth - day , the period at which thofe upon the foundation are fuperannuated . Whether he did not betray his abilities early in life ...
... himself been educated . At this school Edward Young remained till the election after his eighteenth birth - day , the period at which thofe upon the foundation are fuperannuated . Whether he did not betray his abilities early in life ...
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... himself independent , and his own master at All - fouls , he was not the ornament to religion and morality which he afterwards became . The au- thority of his father , indeed , had ceased by his death in 1705 ; and Young was certainly ...
... himself independent , and his own master at All - fouls , he was not the ornament to religion and morality which he afterwards became . The au- thority of his father , indeed , had ceased by his death in 1705 ; and Young was certainly ...
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... himself is the obligation he formerly received from her royal indulgence . Of this obliga- tion nothing is now known . Young is faid to have been engaged at a fettled ftipend as a writer for the Court . Yet who fhall fay this with ...
... himself is the obligation he formerly received from her royal indulgence . Of this obliga- tion nothing is now known . Young is faid to have been engaged at a fettled ftipend as a writer for the Court . Yet who fhall fay this with ...
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... himself , afks , Is thy ambition fweating for a rhyme , Thou unambitious fool , at this late time ? A fool at forty is a fool indeed . The Satires were originally published feparately in folio , and thefe paffages fix the appearance of ...
... himself , afks , Is thy ambition fweating for a rhyme , Thou unambitious fool , at this late time ? A fool at forty is a fool indeed . The Satires were originally published feparately in folio , and thefe paffages fix the appearance of ...
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... pendage to any of his three plays which he added himself , is , I believe , the only one of the kind . He calls it an hifto- rical Epilogue . Finding that Guilt's dread- dreadful clofe his narrow feene denied , he , in YOUNG . 47.
... pendage to any of his three plays which he added himself , is , I believe , the only one of the kind . He calls it an hifto- rical Epilogue . Finding that Guilt's dread- dreadful clofe his narrow feene denied , he , in YOUNG . 47.
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