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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... poetical thought that had struck his fancy . In the year 1749 , he commenced his academi- cal course , and attended the Greek class in Ma- rischal College , Aberdeen , at that time taught by Dr Blackwell . † Of Dr Blackwell's friendship ...
... poetical thought that had struck his fancy . In the year 1749 , he commenced his academi- cal course , and attended the Greek class in Ma- rischal College , Aberdeen , at that time taught by Dr Blackwell . † Of Dr Blackwell's friendship ...
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... poetical talents , by which he afterwards rose to such distinguished eminence . § § Dr Anderson's Life of Thomson , in the Poets of Great Britain , Vol . ix , p . 274 . small distance from the place of his residence , a LIFE OF DR ...
... poetical talents , by which he afterwards rose to such distinguished eminence . § § Dr Anderson's Life of Thomson , in the Poets of Great Britain , Vol . ix , p . 274 . small distance from the place of his residence , a LIFE OF DR ...
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... poetical compositions . He has been heard to , say , for instance , that the descrip- tion of the Owl , in his charming poem on " Re- tirement , " " Whence the scared Owl , on pinions grey , " Breaks from the rustling boughs , " And ...
... poetical compositions . He has been heard to , say , for instance , that the descrip- tion of the Owl , in his charming poem on " Re- tirement , " " Whence the scared Owl , on pinions grey , " Breaks from the rustling boughs , " And ...
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... poetical imagination , on those occa- sions , at the approach of the rising sun , as he would view the grandeur of that scene from the hill in the neighbourhood of his native village . The high hill which rises to the west of Fordoun ...
... poetical imagination , on those occa- sions , at the approach of the rising sun , as he would view the grandeur of that scene from the hill in the neighbourhood of his native village . The high hill which rises to the west of Fordoun ...
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... poetical and warm imagination ; and , therefore , I trust I shall be forgiven for having dwelt on them so long . † * Melmoth's Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborn , Letter xx . p . 85 . ↑ It must have been about this period , that an ...
... poetical and warm imagination ; and , therefore , I trust I shall be forgiven for having dwelt on them so long . † * Melmoth's Letters of Sir Thomas Fitzosborn , Letter xx . p . 85 . ↑ It must have been about this period , that an ...
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