Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... pleased with himself , easily imagines that he fhall please others . Sir William Trumbal , who had been am- baffador at Conftantinople , and fecre- tary of ftate , when he retired from bu- finefs , fixed his refidence in the neigh ...
... pleased with himself , easily imagines that he fhall please others . Sir William Trumbal , who had been am- baffador at Conftantinople , and fecre- tary of ftate , when he retired from bu- finefs , fixed his refidence in the neigh ...
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... pleased himself with the thought of outwitting Bolingbroke . + In familiar or convivial converfation , it does not appear that he excelled . He may be faid to have resembled Dryden , as being not one that was dif tinguished by vivacity ...
... pleased himself with the thought of outwitting Bolingbroke . + In familiar or convivial converfation , it does not appear that he excelled . He may be faid to have resembled Dryden , as being not one that was dif tinguished by vivacity ...
Page 253
... 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 who could not deny deny that he 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 who could not deny deny that he was ...
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