The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 4Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1800 |
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... called in fondness " the little Nightingale . " Being not fent early to fchool , he was taught to read by an aunt ; and when he was seven or eight years old , became a lover of books . He firft learned to write by imitating printed ...
... called in fondness " the little Nightingale . " Being not fent early to fchool , he was taught to read by an aunt ; and when he was seven or eight years old , became a lover of books . He firft learned to write by imitating printed ...
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... called by his father when he was about twelve years old ; and there he had for a few months the affiftance of one Deane , another prieft , of whom he learned only to conftrue a little of " Tully's Offices . " How B 2 Mr. Mr. Deane could ...
... called by his father when he was about twelve years old ; and there he had for a few months the affiftance of one Deane , another prieft , of whom he learned only to conftrue a little of " Tully's Offices . " How B 2 Mr. Mr. Deane could ...
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... called wit , is truly judg ment . So far Dennis is undoubtedly right ; but not content with argument , he will have a little mirth , and triumphs over the firft couplet in terms too elegant to be forgotten . " By the way , what “ rare ...
... called wit , is truly judg ment . So far Dennis is undoubtedly right ; but not content with argument , he will have a little mirth , and triumphs over the firft couplet in terms too elegant to be forgotten . " By the way , what “ rare ...
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... called " bulls . " The first edition had this line : What is this wit- Where wanted , fcorn'd ; and envied where acquir'd ? How , " fays the critick , " can wit be fcorn'd ❝where it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently " employed ...
... called " bulls . " The first edition had this line : What is this wit- Where wanted , fcorn'd ; and envied where acquir'd ? How , " fays the critick , " can wit be fcorn'd ❝where it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently " employed ...
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... called in queftion his knowledge of Greek , and his qua- lifications for a tranflator of Homer . To thefe he made no publick oppofition ; but in one of his Letters efcapes from them as well as he can . At an age like his , for he was ...
... called in queftion his knowledge of Greek , and his qua- lifications for a tranflator of Homer . To thefe he made no publick oppofition ; but in one of his Letters efcapes from them as well as he can . At an age like his , for he was ...
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