The Lives of the English PoetsBernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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... took him , when he was well advanced in literature , to his own house , where the Earl of Dorset , celebrated for pa- tronage of genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading Horace , and was so well pleased with his ...
... took him , when he was well advanced in literature , to his own house , where the Earl of Dorset , celebrated for pa- tronage of genius , found him by chance , as Burnet relates , reading Horace , and was so well pleased with his ...
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... took care to shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with ...
... took care to shew his delight in the increasing honour of his country by an Epistle to Boileau . He published soon afterwards a volume of poems , with the encomiastic character of his deceased patron , the Duke of Dorset ; it began with ...
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... took little care of my ears while I was not sure if my head was my own . " Of any occurrences in his remaining life I have found no account . In a letter to Swift , " I have , " says he , " treated Lady Harriot at Cambridge ( a fellow ...
... took little care of my ears while I was not sure if my head was my own . " Of any occurrences in his remaining life I have found no account . In a letter to Swift , " I have , " says he , " treated Lady Harriot at Cambridge ( a fellow ...
Pagina 31
... took the degree of M. A. June 3 , 1676 , and resided thirteen years ; a much longer time than it is usual to spend at the university ; and which he seems to have passed with very little attention to the business of the place ; for , in ...
... took the degree of M. A. June 3 , 1676 , and resided thirteen years ; a much longer time than it is usual to spend at the university ; and which he seems to have passed with very little attention to the business of the place ; for , in ...
Pagina 38
... took little care to propitiate the wits ; for he scorns to avert their malice at the expense of virtue or of truth . " Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spite- ful strokes at religion in general ; while others make ...
... took little care to propitiate the wits ; for he scorns to avert their malice at the expense of virtue or of truth . " Several , in their books , have many sarcastical and spite- ful strokes at religion in general ; while others make ...
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