The lives of the English poetsRivington, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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... lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude rewarded by seeing her son eminent , and , Í hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know , at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her ...
... lived to the age of eighty , had her solicitude rewarded by seeing her son eminent , and , Í hope , by seeing him fortunate , and partaking his prosperity . We know , at least , from Sprat's account , that he always acknowledged her ...
Pagina 36
... lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention ...
... lived and acted with manners uncommunicable ; so that it is difficult even for imagination to place us in the state of them whose story is related , and by consequence their joys and griefs are not easily adopted , nor can the attention ...
Pagina 60
... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this uni- versality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
... lived five years , in which time he is said to have read all the Greek and Latin writers . With what limitations this uni- versality is to be understood , who shall inform us ? It might be supposed , that he who read so much should have ...
Pagina 83
... lived longer in this place than any other . # He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither ...
... lived longer in this place than any other . # He was now busied by " Paradise Lost . Whence he drew the original design has been variously conjectured by men who cannot bear to think themselves ignorant of that which , at last , neither ...
Pagina 96
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his household ...
... lived in a confirmed belief of the immediate and occasional agency Providence , yet grew old without any visible worship . In the distribution of his hours , there was no hour of prayer , either solitary , or with his household ...
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