Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... pleasures , and having certainly excited in himself very ftrong defires of intellectual eminence , he spent much of his time over his books ; but he read only to store his mind with facts and images , feizing all that his authors ...
... pleasures , and having certainly excited in himself very ftrong defires of intellectual eminence , he spent much of his time over his books ; but he read only to store his mind with facts and images , feizing all that his authors ...
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... pleasure comprised in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might very reasonably and kindly perfuade the author to acquiefce in his own profpe- rity , and forbear an attempt which he confidered as an unneceffary hazard ...
... pleasure comprised in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might very reasonably and kindly perfuade the author to acquiefce in his own profpe- rity , and forbear an attempt which he confidered as an unneceffary hazard ...
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... pleasure of hearing " them read at his houfe . - Addison , " Congreve , and Garth , were there at " the reading . In four or five places , " Lord Halifax ftopt me very civilly , " and with a fpeech each time , much " of the fame kind ...
... pleasure of hearing " them read at his houfe . - Addison , " Congreve , and Garth , were there at " the reading . In four or five places , " Lord Halifax ftopt me very civilly , " and with a fpeech each time , much " of the fame kind ...
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... pleasure of an Englishman , who has more frequent need to folicit than ex- clude the fun ; but Pope's excavation was requifite as an entrance to his den , and , as some men try to be proud gar- of of their defects , he extracted an orna ...
... pleasure of an Englishman , who has more frequent need to folicit than ex- clude the fun ; but Pope's excavation was requifite as an entrance to his den , and , as some men try to be proud gar- of of their defects , he extracted an orna ...
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... pleasure in hearing his praise . He gave the fame year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shakespeare . His name was now of fo much authority , that Tonfon thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to demand a fubfcription of fix guineas for ...
... pleasure in hearing his praise . He gave the fame year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shakespeare . His name was now of fo much authority , that Tonfon thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to demand a fubfcription of fix guineas for ...
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