The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical observations on their works. [With] The principal additions and corrections in the 3rd ed, כרך 21781 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 41
עמוד 4
... last biographer , Der- rick , to have inherited from his father an eftate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of these particulars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have ...
... last biographer , Der- rick , to have inherited from his father an eftate of two hundred a year , and to have been bred , as was faid , an Anabaptift . For either of these particulars no authority is given . Such a fortune ought to have ...
עמוד 5
... last exalts them into stars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whofe corps might feem a conftellation . At the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his ...
... last exalts them into stars ; and fays , No comet need foretell his change drew on , Whofe corps might feem a conftellation . At the university he does not appear to have been eager of poetical diftinction , or to have lavished his ...
עמוד 30
... last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to fatisfy all reasonable defire . In the firft Letter his observation is on- ly general : " You do live , " fays he , " in as " much ignorance and ...
... last obtained ; and , that no man may ever want them more , I will extract enough to fatisfy all reasonable defire . In the firft Letter his observation is on- ly general : " You do live , " fays he , " in as " much ignorance and ...
עמוד 49
... last drama was Love triumphant , a tragi - comedy . In his dedication to the earl of Salisbury he mentions the lowness of for tune to which he has voluntarily reduced him- felf , and of which he has no reason to be afbamed . VOL . II ...
... last drama was Love triumphant , a tragi - comedy . In his dedication to the earl of Salisbury he mentions the lowness of for tune to which he has voluntarily reduced him- felf , and of which he has no reason to be afbamed . VOL . II ...
עמוד 63
... last , and seems not much to have deferved even this degree of regard , if it was paid to his politi- tical opinions ; for he afterwards wrote a pa- negyrick on the virtues of judge Jefferies , and what more could have been done by the ...
... last , and seems not much to have deferved even this degree of regard , if it was paid to his politi- tical opinions ; for he afterwards wrote a pa- negyrick on the virtues of judge Jefferies , and what more could have been done by the ...
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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