Critical Essays on Some of the Poems of Several English PoetsJames Phillips, 1785 - 386 pages |
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... whose labours they have derived profit or delight . Mr. David Barclay , * from his ac- quaintance with the late Dr. Johnson , thinking with equal truth and kindness , that he might be able to pay a most es- fential mark of attention to ...
... whose labours they have derived profit or delight . Mr. David Barclay , * from his ac- quaintance with the late Dr. Johnson , thinking with equal truth and kindness , that he might be able to pay a most es- fential mark of attention to ...
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... Whose touch can quell the strong , the fierce can tame , Relentless Fear ! ah ! why did fate ordain My trembling heart to own thy iron reign ? There are , thrice happy , who disdain thy sway : The merchant wand'ring o'er the watry way ...
... Whose touch can quell the strong , the fierce can tame , Relentless Fear ! ah ! why did fate ordain My trembling heart to own thy iron reign ? There are , thrice happy , who disdain thy sway : The merchant wand'ring o'er the watry way ...
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... whose pro- feffed aim was purity and correctness : but I think there is little room to believe that those occafional researches were ever improved into any thing like the familiar perufal of a Latin claffic . He had no acquaintance with ...
... whose pro- feffed aim was purity and correctness : but I think there is little room to believe that those occafional researches were ever improved into any thing like the familiar perufal of a Latin claffic . He had no acquaintance with ...
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... whose house , I believe , he became first acquainted with the pious and excellent Lord Lyttleton . He had been vifited at Amwell by the celebrated Mrs. Macaulay ; he was known to Dr. Hawkesworth , Sir William Jones , Mr. Bofwell , and ...
... whose house , I believe , he became first acquainted with the pious and excellent Lord Lyttleton . He had been vifited at Amwell by the celebrated Mrs. Macaulay ; he was known to Dr. Hawkesworth , Sir William Jones , Mr. Bofwell , and ...
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... whose wide arms ftretch o'er daizied greens And wind - mill fails flow circling in the breeze , And cottage walls invelop'd half with trees . Ibid . Slow down the tide before the finking breeze , Albino's white fail gleam'd among the ...
... whose wide arms ftretch o'er daizied greens And wind - mill fails flow circling in the breeze , And cottage walls invelop'd half with trees . Ibid . Slow down the tide before the finking breeze , Albino's white fail gleam'd among the ...
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