The Biographical Magazine: Containing Portraits of Eminent and Ingenious Persons of Every Age and Nation, with Their Lives and Characters, Tom 2E. Wilson., 1820 |
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... pieces , the Hymn to the Naiads is the longest and best . With the purest spirit of classical literature , it contains much mythological ingenuity and many poetical ideas beautifully expressed . His lyrical productions never appear to ...
... pieces , the Hymn to the Naiads is the longest and best . With the purest spirit of classical literature , it contains much mythological ingenuity and many poetical ideas beautifully expressed . His lyrical productions never appear to ...
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... pieces of their kind , and can never die but with the language in which they are written . There are strong features of similarity between Boileau and Pope , with respect to the kind of their writings , and their specific excellence ...
... pieces of their kind , and can never die but with the language in which they are written . There are strong features of similarity between Boileau and Pope , with respect to the kind of their writings , and their specific excellence ...
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... pieces in pushing Mr. Cecil out of the level of a cannon shot . In 1548 , he was advanced to the office of secretary of state ; but , a party being formed against the protector in the following year , he was committed to the tower , and ...
... pieces in pushing Mr. Cecil out of the level of a cannon shot . In 1548 , he was advanced to the office of secretary of state ; but , a party being formed against the protector in the following year , he was committed to the tower , and ...
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... pieces of poetry had been found in the same place , written by Thomas Canynge , and Thomas Rowley , a priest , his friend . These , being communicated from one person to another , acquired , for Chatterton , the patronage of Mr. Barrett ...
... pieces of poetry had been found in the same place , written by Thomas Canynge , and Thomas Rowley , a priest , his friend . These , being communicated from one person to another , acquired , for Chatterton , the patronage of Mr. Barrett ...
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... pieces , and at length blazed out in the Cid , represented in 1636. Cardinal Richelieu , jealous of such a rising genius , endea- voured to damp the public admiration of him by criticism , in which he was joined by the French Academy ...
... pieces , and at length blazed out in the Cid , represented in 1636. Cardinal Richelieu , jealous of such a rising genius , endea- voured to damp the public admiration of him by criticism , in which he was joined by the French Academy ...
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Strona 7 - These busy scenes were blended with, and terminated by meditation and philosophic inquiries. Strip each period of its excesses and errors, and it will not be easy to trace out, or dispose the life of a man of quality into a succession of employments which would better become him. Valour and military activity in youth, business of state in the middle age, contemplation and labour for the information of posterity in the calmer scenes of closing life.