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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Page 62
... wish fuppreffed ; but , as they had been already expofed , it was impracticable now to retract them . From the perufal of thofe Letters , Mr. Allen first conceived the defire of knowing him ; and with fo much zeal did he cultivate the ...
... wish fuppreffed ; but , as they had been already expofed , it was impracticable now to retract them . From the perufal of thofe Letters , Mr. Allen first conceived the defire of knowing him ; and with fo much zeal did he cultivate the ...
Page 69
... wishes of fome who favoured the caufe . He feems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination , oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements of gentle language , but wished to com- pel rather than perfuade . His ftyle is copious ...
... wishes of fome who favoured the caufe . He feems to have adopted the Roman Emperor's determination , oderint dum metuant ; he used no allurements of gentle language , but wished to com- pel rather than perfuade . His ftyle is copious ...
Page 71
... wish thefe Letters were put together " in one Book , and intend ( with your leave ) to procure a tranflation of part at leaft , or of all of " them into French ; but I fhall not proceed a ❝ftep without your confent and opinion , & c ...
... wish thefe Letters were put together " in one Book , and intend ( with your leave ) to procure a tranflation of part at leaft , or of all of " them into French ; but I fhall not proceed a ❝ftep without your confent and opinion , & c ...
Page 76
... wish to have been believed , and which he foon gave his readers fufficient reafon to diftruft , by telling them in a note , that the work was im- perfect , because part of his fubject was Vice too high to be yet exposed . The time ...
... wish to have been believed , and which he foon gave his readers fufficient reafon to diftruft , by telling them in a note , that the work was im- perfect , because part of his fubject was Vice too high to be yet exposed . The time ...
Page 99
... wish to have his intimacy with them known to pofterity : he can derive little honour from the notice of Cobham , Burlington , or Bo- lingbroke . Of his focial qualities , if an eftimate be made from his Letters , an opinion too ...
... wish to have his intimacy with them known to pofterity : he can derive little honour from the notice of Cobham , Burlington , or Bo- lingbroke . Of his focial qualities , if an eftimate be made from his Letters , an opinion too ...
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