Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1765 |
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... young people gain a French accent , or a genteel air . An early acquaintance with the claffics is what may be called the good - breeding of poetry , as it gives a certain graceful- nefs which never forfakes a mind , that contracted it ...
... young people gain a French accent , or a genteel air . An early acquaintance with the claffics is what may be called the good - breeding of poetry , as it gives a certain graceful- nefs which never forfakes a mind , that contracted it ...
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... . Of fome other copies of his verfes , ori- ginally printed in Dryden's Mifcellanies , while he was young , the largest is An Account of the greatest English Poets ; in in the clofe of which he infinuates a defign he The PREFAC E. xiii.
... . Of fome other copies of his verfes , ori- ginally printed in Dryden's Mifcellanies , while he was young , the largest is An Account of the greatest English Poets ; in in the clofe of which he infinuates a defign he The PREFAC E. xiii.
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... young man of learning , than fuch a bounty from fo eminent a patron . How well Mr. Addifon anfwered the expectations of my Lord Somers , cannot appear better , than from the book book of Travels he dedicated to his Lordship at his The ...
... young man of learning , than fuch a bounty from fo eminent a patron . How well Mr. Addifon anfwered the expectations of my Lord Somers , cannot appear better , than from the book book of Travels he dedicated to his Lordship at his The ...
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... young at the univerfity , and even attempted fomething in it there , though not a line as it now ftands . The work was performed by him in his travels , and retouched in England , without any formed refolution of bringing it upon the ...
... young at the univerfity , and even attempted fomething in it there , though not a line as it now ftands . The work was performed by him in his travels , and retouched in England , without any formed refolution of bringing it upon the ...
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... of Signor Valetta , a young Neapolitan nobleman , has ever been made public . If he had found time for the write- ing of another tragedy , the death of Socrates Socrates would have been the ftory . And , however The PREFACE . XXV.
... of Signor Valetta , a young Neapolitan nobleman , has ever been made public . If he had found time for the write- ing of another tragedy , the death of Socrates Socrates would have been the ftory . And , however The PREFACE . XXV.
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