Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 142 pages |
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... study , has been enquired with hopelefs curio- fity . For who can give an account of another's ftudies ? Swift was not likely to admit any to his privacies , or to im part a minute account of his business or his leifure . D Soon Soon ...
... study , has been enquired with hopelefs curio- fity . For who can give an account of another's ftudies ? Swift was not likely to admit any to his privacies , or to im part a minute account of his business or his leifure . D Soon Soon ...
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... exercises of uncommon elegance ; and , at his removal to New College in 1719 , prefented to the elec- tors , as the product of his private and A volun- voluntary studies , a compleat verfion of Lucan's poem , [ 1 ] PITT. ...
... exercises of uncommon elegance ; and , at his removal to New College in 1719 , prefented to the elec- tors , as the product of his private and A volun- voluntary studies , a compleat verfion of Lucan's poem , [ 1 ] PITT. ...
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Samuel Johnson. voluntary studies , a compleat verfion of Lucan's poem , which he did not then know to have been tranflated by Rowe . This is an inftance of early dili- gence which well deferves to be recorded . The fuppreffion of such a ...
Samuel Johnson. voluntary studies , a compleat verfion of Lucan's poem , which he did not then know to have been tranflated by Rowe . This is an inftance of early dili- gence which well deferves to be recorded . The fuppreffion of such a ...
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... study , determined him to the church . He therefore entered into orders ; and , it feems , married about the fame time a lady of the name of Enfor ; " whofe 66 grand - mother , " fays he , " was a Shake- " fpeare , defcended from a ...
... study , determined him to the church . He therefore entered into orders ; and , it feems , married about the fame time a lady of the name of Enfor ; " whofe 66 grand - mother , " fays he , " was a Shake- " fpeare , defcended from a ...
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... study . He was , as he hints in his Mifcella- nies , a maker of verfes from fifteen to fifty ; and in his youth he appears to have paid attention to Latin poetry . His verfes to his brother , in the glyconick A 2 mea- measure , written ...
... study . He was , as he hints in his Mifcella- nies , a maker of verfes from fifteen to fifty ; and in his youth he appears to have paid attention to Latin poetry . His verfes to his brother , in the glyconick A 2 mea- measure , written ...
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