Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Količina 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when_vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that Swift should have checked a passion which he never ...
... praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when_vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that Swift should have checked a passion which he never ...
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... praises ? As his years increased , his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made conversation difficult ; they grew likewise more severe , till in 1736 , as he was writing a poem called “ The Legion Club ...
... praises ? As his years increased , his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made conversation difficult ; they grew likewise more severe , till in 1736 , as he was writing a poem called “ The Legion Club ...
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... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactick , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inatten- tion by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactick , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inatten- tion by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
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... praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom ...
... praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom ...
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... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with human life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attain- able by a boy of fourteen in " Windsor Forest . " " 1 Ald . P. vol . i . p . 137. The Thebais was the ...
... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with human life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attain- able by a boy of fourteen in " Windsor Forest . " " 1 Ald . P. vol . i . p . 137. The Thebais was the ...
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Stran 405 - Letters. By R. Carruthers. Numerous Illustrations. POTTERY AND PORCELAIN, and other objects of Vertu. Comprising an Illustrated Catalogue of the Bernal Collection, with the prices and names of the Possessors. Also an Introductory Lecture on Pottery and Porcelain, and an Engraved List of all Marks and Monograms. By HG Bohn. Numerous Woodcuts. - With coloured Illustrations, iof.
Stran 193 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ! Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
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Stran 410 - ENNEMOSEK'S History of Magic. Trans, by W. Howitt. With an Appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Table-Turning, and SpiritRapping, &c. 2 vols. HIND'S Introduction to Astronomy. With Vocabulary of the Terms in present. use. Numerous Woodcuts. 3^. 6d. HOGG'S (Jabez) Elements of Experimental and Natural Philosophy. Being
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Stran 396 - with Two Lay Sermons. Literary ; to which is added, THE THEORY OF LIFE. Collected and arranged by T. Ashe, BA Miscellanies, Esthetic and COMMINES.—See Philip. CONDÉ'S History of the Dominion of the Arabs in Spain. Trans, by Mrs. Foster. Portrait of Abderahmen ben Moavia. 3 vols. COWPER'S Complete Works, Poems,