Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... firft edu- cation at the Chartreux , from whence he was removed very early to Queen's college in Oxford . He had been there about two years , when the accidental fight of a paper of his verses , in the hands of Doctor Lancafter then ...
... firft edu- cation at the Chartreux , from whence he was removed very early to Queen's college in Oxford . He had been there about two years , when the accidental fight of a paper of his verses , in the hands of Doctor Lancafter then ...
Page xii
... firft conceived an opinion of the English genius for poetry , by perufing the prefent he made him of the Mufa Anglicana . It has been currently reported , that this famous French poet , among the civilities he fhewed Mr. Addifon on that ...
... firft conceived an opinion of the English genius for poetry , by perufing the prefent he made him of the Mufa Anglicana . It has been currently reported , that this famous French poet , among the civilities he fhewed Mr. Addifon on that ...
Page xiii
... firft English performance made public by him , is a fhort copy of verfes to Mr. Dryden , with a view particularly to his tranflations . This was foon followed by a verfion of the fourth Georgic of Virgil , of which Mr. Dryden makes very ...
... firft English performance made public by him , is a fhort copy of verfes to Mr. Dryden , with a view particularly to his tranflations . This was foon followed by a verfion of the fourth Georgic of Virgil , of which Mr. Dryden makes very ...
Page xvii
... criticism , which convinces at firft fight , and fhews the vanity of conjectures , made by antiquaries at a diftance . If VOL . I. a the ET PATRIE the knowledge of polite literature has its ufe , there The PREFACE . xvii.
... criticism , which convinces at firft fight , and fhews the vanity of conjectures , made by antiquaries at a diftance . If VOL . I. a the ET PATRIE the knowledge of polite literature has its ufe , there The PREFACE . xvii.
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... firft difcovered Sir Richard Steele to be author of The Tatler , by an obfervation upon Virgil , which had been by him communicated to his friend . The affiftance , he occafionally gave him afterwards in the courfe of the paper , did ...
... firft difcovered Sir Richard Steele to be author of The Tatler , by an obfervation upon Virgil , which had been by him communicated to his friend . The affiftance , he occafionally gave him afterwards in the courfe of the paper , did ...
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