Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 من الصفحات |
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... excellence through his whole life , though his or- dinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , a Romifh priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and ...
... excellence through his whole life , though his or- dinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hampshire under Taverner , a Romifh priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and ...
الصفحة 8
... excellence . His primary and principal purpofe was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by propofing fubjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revifals ; af- ter which the old gentleman ...
... excellence . His primary and principal purpofe was to be a poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by propofing fubjects , and obliging him to correct his performances by many revifals ; af- ter which the old gentleman ...
الصفحة 69
... excellence and difficulty of this great work , it must be very defirable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations it advanced to correct . E 3 nefs , nefs . Of fuch an intellectual procefs the knowledge has POPE . 69.
... excellence and difficulty of this great work , it must be very defirable to know how it was performed , and by what gradations it advanced to correct . E 3 nefs , nefs . Of fuch an intellectual procefs the knowledge has POPE . 69.
الصفحة 153
... ; and thofe of Walfh feem written as exercifes , and were never fent to any living mistress or friend . Pope's epifto- lary excellence had an open field ; he had had no English rival , living or dead . Pope POPE . 153.
... ; and thofe of Walfh feem written as exercifes , and were never fent to any living mistress or friend . Pope's epifto- lary excellence had an open field ; he had had no English rival , living or dead . Pope POPE . 153.
الصفحة 180
Samuel Johnson. lence , commonly spend life in one pur- fuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon eafier terms . But to the particu- lar fpecies of excellence men are di- rected , not by an afcendant planet or predominating humour ...
Samuel Johnson. lence , commonly spend life in one pur- fuit ; for excellence is not often gained upon eafier terms . But to the particu- lar fpecies of excellence men are di- rected , not by an afcendant planet or predominating humour ...
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