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Pagina 34
The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit,
or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they
turn the mind only on the writer, whom, without thinking on a woman but as the ...
The compositions are such as might have been written for penance by a hermit,
or for hire by a philosophical rhymer who had only heard of another sex ; for they
turn the mind only on the writer, whom, without thinking on a woman but as the ...
Pagina 346
Besides those verses in the Oxford books, which he could not help setting his
name to, several of his compositions came abroad under other names, which his
own singular modesty, and faithful silence, strove in vain to conceal. The
Encaenia ...
Besides those verses in the Oxford books, which he could not help setting his
name to, several of his compositions came abroad under other names, which his
own singular modesty, and faithful silence, strove in vain to conceal. The
Encaenia ...
Pagina 365
He appears from his writings to have been not ill qualified for poetical
compositions; and being conscious of his powers, when he left the university he
enlisted himself among the wits. He was the familiar friend of Otway; and was
engaged, ...
He appears from his writings to have been not ill qualified for poetical
compositions; and being conscious of his powers, when he left the university he
enlisted himself among the wits. He was the familiar friend of Otway; and was
engaged, ...
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