Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... used fometimes to stroll to the playhouse , and was fo delighted with theatrical exhibitions , that he formed a kind of play from Ogylby's Iliad , with fome verfes of his own intermixed , which 6 which he perfuaded his fchool - fellows ...
... used fometimes to stroll to the playhouse , and was fo delighted with theatrical exhibitions , that he formed a kind of play from Ogylby's Iliad , with fome verfes of his own intermixed , which 6 which he perfuaded his fchool - fellows ...
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... used to re- prefent himself as having loft part of what Taverner had taught him , and on his mafter at Twyford he had already exercised his poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those mafters he tranflated more than a fourth part of the ...
... used to re- prefent himself as having loft part of what Taverner had taught him , and on his mafter at Twyford he had already exercised his poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those mafters he tranflated more than a fourth part of the ...
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... used to revenge his vexations by lying all night upon the bridge . There is nothing , fays Juvenal , that a man will not believe in his own fa- vour . Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers in the ...
... used to revenge his vexations by lying all night upon the bridge . There is nothing , fays Juvenal , that a man will not believe in his own fa- vour . Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers in the ...
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... used to meet in the time of Queen Anne , and denominated themselves the Scrib- blerus Club . Their purpose was to cen- fure the abuses of learning by a ficti- tious Life of an infatuated Scholar . They were difperfed ; the defign was ne ...
... used to meet in the time of Queen Anne , and denominated themselves the Scrib- blerus Club . Their purpose was to cen- fure the abuses of learning by a ficti- tious Life of an infatuated Scholar . They were difperfed ; the defign was ne ...
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... used to relieve by inhaling the fteam of coffee , which he very frequently required . Moft of what can be told concern- ing his petty peculiarities was com- municated by a female domestick of the Earl of Oxford , who knew him perhaps ...
... used to relieve by inhaling the fteam of coffee , which he very frequently required . Moft of what can be told concern- ing his petty peculiarities was com- municated by a female domestick of the Earl of Oxford , who knew him perhaps ...
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