Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1906 - 493 pagina's |
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Pagina 236
... public occasions . He probably considered that he who proposed to be an author , ought first to be a student . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is ...
... public occasions . He probably considered that he who proposed to be an author , ought first to be a student . He obtained , whatever was the reason , no fellowship in the College . Why he was excluded cannot now be known , and it is ...
Pagina 288
... public was abated , partly by custom , and partly by success . It will not be easy to find , in all the opulence of our language , a treatise so artfully variegated with suc- cessive representations of opposite probabilities , so en ...
... public was abated , partly by custom , and partly by success . It will not be easy to find , in all the opulence of our language , a treatise so artfully variegated with suc- cessive representations of opposite probabilities , so en ...
Pagina 346
... public Collections of the University upon State Subjects , were never in such esteem , either for elegy or congratulation , as when he contributed most largely to them ; and it was natural for those who knew his peculiar way of writing ...
... public Collections of the University upon State Subjects , were never in such esteem , either for elegy or congratulation , as when he contributed most largely to them ; and it was natural for those who knew his peculiar way of writing ...
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