Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Band 3C. Whittingham, 1805 |
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... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
... elegant literature ; and the chief object of his ambition was , to be the associate and com- panion of those who figured as the leaders of the literary world . Nothing could be better calculated for the gra- tification of his desires ...
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... elegant in his per- son ; in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally ...
... elegant in his per- son ; in his address fashionable and engaging ; and , independent of his classical acquirements , familiar with the French and Italian . His sions , however , were strong and impetuous , and his vanity equally ...
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... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
... elegant and useful ; and we have only to lament that he should , in the latter part of his life , have deviated so widely from the maxims that he had himself endeavoured to incul- cate , and which he had the invaluable opportu- nity of ...
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... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom- mend it . His poems on the ...
... elegant and harmonious , are , on the whole , chill , lifeless , and monotonous ; and his address to the Deity , a subject requiring the utmost efforts of sublimity , has little besides its piety to recom- mend it . His poems on the ...
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... elegant and exact , and affords the English reader a very com- petent idea of perhaps the most pleasing tale in the collection of the Roman Poet . About the year 1712 , Tonson the bookseller , who was desirous of procuring a translation ...
... elegant and exact , and affords the English reader a very com- petent idea of perhaps the most pleasing tale in the collection of the Roman Poet . About the year 1712 , Tonson the bookseller , who was desirous of procuring a translation ...
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