An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen. Including Many of His Original Letters. [With a Portrait.], المجلد 1Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 من الصفحات |
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... mention it ; but I have perfect confidence in the veracity of those friends to whom he has frequently told the circumstance . Having lain down , early in the morning , on the bank of his fa- From this cheerless want of society , however ...
... mention it ; but I have perfect confidence in the veracity of those friends to whom he has frequently told the circumstance . Having lain down , early in the morning , on the bank of his fa- From this cheerless want of society , however ...
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... mention an anecdote which took place in the early part of his acquaintance with this gentleman . Mr Garden , having seen some of his pieces in manuscript , and entertain- ing some doubt of their being entirely of his own composition ...
... mention an anecdote which took place in the early part of his acquaintance with this gentleman . Mr Garden , having seen some of his pieces in manuscript , and entertain- ing some doubt of their being entirely of his own composition ...
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... mentions grinning in some part of his Fairy Queen . That pamphlet of Mr Hurd's is , notwithstanding , an ingenious performance , and evinces a great compass of classical know- ledge , both ancient and modern . " I have never yet seen ...
... mentions grinning in some part of his Fairy Queen . That pamphlet of Mr Hurd's is , notwithstanding , an ingenious performance , and evinces a great compass of classical know- ledge , both ancient and modern . " I have never yet seen ...
الصفحة 79
... mention also is made of a poem under the title of the " Grotesquiad , " which I never either saw or heard of . It was undoubted- ly of the mock heroic or satiric kind , a species of poetry of which Dr Beattie used to express himself ...
... mention also is made of a poem under the title of the " Grotesquiad , " which I never either saw or heard of . It was undoubted- ly of the mock heroic or satiric kind , a species of poetry of which Dr Beattie used to express himself ...
الصفحة 85
... mention the " Arthur " of Blackmore , they are not to be compared with it . Tasso possesses an exuberant and sublime imagination , though in 、 exuberance it seems , in my opinion , inferior to our Spenser , and in sublimity inferior to ...
... mention the " Arthur " of Blackmore , they are not to be compared with it . Tasso possesses an exuberant and sublime imagination , though in 、 exuberance it seems , in my opinion , inferior to our Spenser , and in sublimity inferior to ...
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