The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: To the Time of Dean Swift, Volum 4R. Griffiths, 1753 - 356 sider |
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... alfo in print a volume of Letters , the fecond edition of which was published in 1713. She died July 11 , 1724 . To the Right HONOURABLE the COUNTESS of BRISTOL . LON ONG had my mind , unknowing how to foar , In humble profe been train ...
... alfo in print a volume of Letters , the fecond edition of which was published in 1713. She died July 11 , 1724 . To the Right HONOURABLE the COUNTESS of BRISTOL . LON ONG had my mind , unknowing how to foar , In humble profe been train ...
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... alfo Member of Parliament for Eaft - Grinstead in Suffex . In 1710 he was fuppofed to have had a fhare in writing the Examiner , and particularly a Criticism in it upon a Poem of Dr. Garth to the earl of Godolphin , taken notice of in ...
... alfo Member of Parliament for Eaft - Grinstead in Suffex . In 1710 he was fuppofed to have had a fhare in writing the Examiner , and particularly a Criticism in it upon a Poem of Dr. Garth to the earl of Godolphin , taken notice of in ...
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... alfo feveral copies of verfes on divers fubjects , and occafions , and ma- ny ingenious letters , entitled Letters of Wit , Po- litics , and Morality , which I collected , and pub- lifhed about 21 years ago * . Her dramatic works are ...
... alfo feveral copies of verfes on divers fubjects , and occafions , and ma- ny ingenious letters , entitled Letters of Wit , Po- litics , and Morality , which I collected , and pub- lifhed about 21 years ago * . Her dramatic works are ...
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... alfo tranflated the Eneid of Virgil , which were published by fubfcription in four volumes octavo , the laft of which came out in 1726 , a little before the author's death . He also published in his life - time three Volumes of Sermons ...
... alfo tranflated the Eneid of Virgil , which were published by fubfcription in four volumes octavo , the laft of which came out in 1726 , a little before the author's death . He also published in his life - time three Volumes of Sermons ...
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... alfo fermons upon various other fubjects .. WILLIAM CONGREVE , Efq ; TH HLS gentleman was defcended from the an- cient houfe of Congreve in Staffordshire , but authors differ as to the place of his birth ; fome contend that he was born ...
... alfo fermons upon various other fubjects .. WILLIAM CONGREVE , Efq ; TH HLS gentleman was defcended from the an- cient houfe of Congreve in Staffordshire , but authors differ as to the place of his birth ; fome contend that he was born ...
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The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the Time of ..., Volum 4 Robert Shiells Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1753 |
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: To the Time of ..., Volum 4 Theophilus Cibber Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1753 |
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Side 12 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Side 193 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Side 236 - The person who acted Polly, till then obscure, became all at Once the favourite of the town; her pictures were engraved, and sold in great numbers; her life written, books of letters and...
Side 236 - Furthermore, it drove out of England (for that season) the Italian Opera, which had carried all before it for ten years.
Side 116 - An Account of the Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government in England...
Side 106 - Richard would call for the reckoning, and return home; but his expectations deceived him, for Sir Richard told him that he was without money, and that the pamphlet must be sold before the dinner could be paid for...
Side 105 - Richard, with an air of the utmost importance, to come very early to his house the next morning. Mr. Savage came as he had promised, found the chariot at the door, and Sir Richard waiting for him, and ready to go out. What was intended, and whither they were to go, Savage could not conjecture, and was not willing to inquire ; but immediately seated himself with Sir Richard.
Side 161 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the proud and great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Side 111 - any, not the remotest relation to public matters, nor correspondence with the persons then predominant, until the year 1657 ; when indeed I entered into an employment, for which I was not altogether improper, and which I considered to be the most innocent and inoffensive towards his majesty's affairs, of any in that usurped and irregular government, to which all men were then exposed.
Side 236 - This piece was received with greater applause than was ever known. Besides being acted in London sixtythree days without interruption, and renewed the next season with equal applause, it spread into all the great towns of England; was played in many places to the thirtieth and fortieth time ; at Bath and Bristol fifty, &c.