Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... original compofition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was confidérable , he was removed to a fchool at Twyford near Winchester , and again to another fchool about Hyde - park Corner ; from which he used fometimes ...
... original compofition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was confidérable , he was removed to a fchool at Twyford near Winchester , and again to another fchool about Hyde - park Corner ; from which he used fometimes ...
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... original but this is but a small part of his praife ; he discovers fuch ac- quaintance both with human life and publick affairs as is not eafily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windfor Foreft . Next year he was ...
... original but this is but a small part of his praife ; he discovers fuch ac- quaintance both with human life and publick affairs as is not eafily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windfor Foreft . Next year he was ...
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... , and the patrons of literature were busy to re commend his undertaking , and promot his intereft . Lord Oxford , indeed , la mented that fuch a genius fhould b wafte . wafted upon a work not original ; but proposed no 52 POPE .
... , and the patrons of literature were busy to re commend his undertaking , and promot his intereft . Lord Oxford , indeed , la mented that fuch a genius fhould b wafte . wafted upon a work not original ; but proposed no 52 POPE .
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Samuel Johnson. wafted upon a work not original ; but proposed no means by which he might live without it : Addifon recommended caution and moderation , and advifed him not to be content with the praise of half the nation , when he might ...
Samuel Johnson. wafted upon a work not original ; but proposed no means by which he might live without it : Addifon recommended caution and moderation , and advifed him not to be content with the praise of half the nation , when he might ...
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... original with accidental notions ,. and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produce ambiguity , in diction , and obfcurity in books . To this this open difplay of unadulterated na- ture it must be POPE . 59.
... original with accidental notions ,. and crowding the mind with images which time effaces , produce ambiguity , in diction , and obfcurity in books . To this this open difplay of unadulterated na- ture it must be POPE . 59.
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