Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... seems , had malice enough to conceal his discovery , and to permit a publica- tion which , by making his friend Phil- lips ridiculous , made him for ever an enemy to Pope . It appears that about this time Pope had a strong inclination ...
... seems , had malice enough to conceal his discovery , and to permit a publica- tion which , by making his friend Phil- lips ridiculous , made him for ever an enemy to Pope . It appears that about this time Pope had a strong inclination ...
Page 66
... was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the under- taker's mind . He that runs against Time , has an antagonist not fubject to cafualties . The The encouragement given to this tranflation , though report seems 66 POPE .
... was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the under- taker's mind . He that runs against Time , has an antagonist not fubject to cafualties . The The encouragement given to this tranflation , though report seems 66 POPE .
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Samuel Johnson. The encouragement given to this tranflation , though report seems to have over - rated it , was fuch as the world has not often feen . The fubfcribers were five hundred and feventy - five . The co- pies , for which ...
Samuel Johnson. The encouragement given to this tranflation , though report seems to have over - rated it , was fuch as the world has not often feen . The fubfcribers were five hundred and feventy - five . The co- pies , for which ...
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... seems not to have understood , and was pleased with an interpretation that made them orthodox . A man of fuch exalted fuperiority , and fo little moderation , would natural- ly have all his delinquences observed and aggravated : thofe ...
... seems not to have understood , and was pleased with an interpretation that made them orthodox . A man of fuch exalted fuperiority , and fo little moderation , would natural- ly have all his delinquences observed and aggravated : thofe ...
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... seems to have happened to him as to many others , that he was lefs attentive to dead mafters ; he studied in the academy of Paracelfus , and made the universe his favourite volume . He gathered his notions fresh from reality , not from ...
... seems to have happened to him as to many others , that he was lefs attentive to dead mafters ; he studied in the academy of Paracelfus , and made the universe his favourite volume . He gathered his notions fresh from reality , not from ...
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