Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volumen2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 |
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... poets , hee will easily beleeve that the highest linke of nature's chayne must needs be tyed to the foot of Jupiter's chayre . To con- clude , therefore , let no man upon a weake con- ceite of sobriety , or an ill applyed moderation ...
... poets , hee will easily beleeve that the highest linke of nature's chayne must needs be tyed to the foot of Jupiter's chayre . To con- clude , therefore , let no man upon a weake con- ceite of sobriety , or an ill applyed moderation ...
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... need have much cunning , to seeme to know that , hee doth not . Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematicks subtill ; natural philosophy deepe ; morall grave ; logicke and rhetorick OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 21.
... need have much cunning , to seeme to know that , hee doth not . Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematicks subtill ; natural philosophy deepe ; morall grave ; logicke and rhetorick OF ENGLISH STYLE , & c . 21.
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... poet so far above the ordinary sons of men , may be selected from his work on the Reason of Church Government : " Time serves not now , and , perhaps , I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in ...
... poet so far above the ordinary sons of men , may be selected from his work on the Reason of Church Government : " Time serves not now , and , perhaps , I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home , in ...
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... poet had resided much upon the continent , and was intimately acquainted with French litera- ture , and a great favourite with the exiled family . On the accession of Charles the Second , he re- visited his native country , and during a ...
... poet had resided much upon the continent , and was intimately acquainted with French litera- ture , and a great favourite with the exiled family . On the accession of Charles the Second , he re- visited his native country , and during a ...
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... poet : he made him be- sides all this a rich man , and a man who desired to be no richer . O fortunatus nimium , et bona qui sua novit . To be a husbandman is but a re- treat from the city ; to be a philosopher , from the world ; or ...
... poet : he made him be- sides all this a rich man , and a man who desired to be no richer . O fortunatus nimium , et bona qui sua novit . To be a husbandman is but a re- treat from the city ; to be a philosopher , from the world ; or ...
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