Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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... lived , Young found a patron , and in his diffo- lute defcendant a friend and a compa- nion . The Marquis died in April 1715 . The beginning of the next year the young Marquis fet out upon his travels , from which he returned in about a ...
... lived , Young found a patron , and in his diffo- lute defcendant a friend and a compa- nion . The Marquis died in April 1715 . The beginning of the next year the young Marquis fet out upon his travels , from which he returned in about a ...
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... lived almoft forty years after he took Orders , which included one whole reign uncommonly long , and part of another , he was never thought worthy of the least preferment . The author of the Night Thoughts ended his days upon a Living ...
... lived almoft forty years after he took Orders , which included one whole reign uncommonly long , and part of another , he was never thought worthy of the least preferment . The author of the Night Thoughts ended his days upon a Living ...
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... lived at his house with his tenants , who were diftantly related ; but finding that imperfect poffeffion in- convenient , he took the whole eftate into his own hands , more to the im- provement of its beauty than the in- creafe of its ...
... lived at his house with his tenants , who were diftantly related ; but finding that imperfect poffeffion in- convenient , he took the whole eftate into his own hands , more to the im- provement of its beauty than the in- creafe of its ...
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... , that if he had lived a little longer he would have been affifted by a penfion : fuch bounty could not have been ever more proper- ly bestowed ; but that it was ever afked is is not certain ; it is too certain that it SHENSTONE . 9.
... , that if he had lived a little longer he would have been affifted by a penfion : fuch bounty could not have been ever more proper- ly bestowed ; but that it was ever afked is is not certain ; it is too certain that it SHENSTONE . 9.
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... lived in the highest degree of connubial feli- city but human pleasures are fhort ; fhe died in childbed about five years afterwards , and he folaced his grief by writing a long poem to her memory . He did not however condemn him- felf ...
... lived in the highest degree of connubial feli- city but human pleasures are fhort ; fhe died in childbed about five years afterwards , and he folaced his grief by writing a long poem to her memory . He did not however condemn him- felf ...
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