Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 113 pages |
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Page 12
... natural principles would not fuffer him to wallow long . If this were fo , he has left behind him not only his evidence in favour of virtue , but the potent teftimony of experience against vice . Young Young perhaps afcribed the good ...
... natural principles would not fuffer him to wallow long . If this were fo , he has left behind him not only his evidence in favour of virtue , but the potent teftimony of experience against vice . Young Young perhaps afcribed the good ...
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... nature to fall " off from fin , and makes our very " fenfes and affections converts to our 66 religion , and promoters of our duty . " His flattery was as ready for the other fex as for ours , and was at least as well adapted . Auguft ...
... nature to fall " off from fin , and makes our very " fenfes and affections converts to our 66 religion , and promoters of our duty . " His flattery was as ready for the other fex as for ours , and was at least as well adapted . Auguft ...
Page 37
... us in the next couplet , Her favour is diffus'd to that degree , Excefs of goodness ! it has dawn'd on me . Of the nature of this favour we must C3 now now reft contented in ignorance . The fifth Satire , YOUN G. 37.
... us in the next couplet , Her favour is diffus'd to that degree , Excefs of goodness ! it has dawn'd on me . Of the nature of this favour we must C3 now now reft contented in ignorance . The fifth Satire , YOUN G. 37.
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... quarrel with me 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 .
... quarrel with me 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 .
Page 68
... nature , I could with Lorenzo to have been only the creation of the Poet's fancy . That this was the cafe , many expreffions in the Night Thoughts would feem to prove , did not a paffage in Night Eight appear to fhew that he had ...
... nature , I could with Lorenzo to have been only the creation of the Poet's fancy . That this was the cafe , many expreffions in the Night Thoughts would feem to prove , did not a paffage in Night Eight appear to fhew that he had ...
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