The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected ...H. Baldwin and Son, 1800 |
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... Thomas Forth , who compounded for the first- fruits of this living , Oct. 18 , 1637 , and was probably ejected for scandal and delinquency , ten years afterwards , by the reformers of that time . One Henry Pickering , perhaps the son of ...
... Thomas Forth , who compounded for the first- fruits of this living , Oct. 18 , 1637 , and was probably ejected for scandal and delinquency , ten years afterwards , by the reformers of that time . One Henry Pickering , perhaps the son of ...
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... Thomas Fuller , the Historian . parently in Sept. 1720 , when the Duke was yet living , it should seem that both the design and inscription of the monument were entirely regulated by Pope . It was not , however , as has been mentioned ...
... Thomas Fuller , the Historian . parently in Sept. 1720 , when the Duke was yet living , it should seem that both the design and inscription of the monument were entirely regulated by Pope . It was not , however , as has been mentioned ...
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... of Reflexions Historical and Political , & c . [ Thomas Burnet , Esq . ] By George Gran- ville , Lord Lansdowne , " p . 6. 4to . 1732 . • MSS . Harl . 1094 , -1553- daughter and heir of Sir John Beville , of Chester- 10 THE LIFE OF.
... of Reflexions Historical and Political , & c . [ Thomas Burnet , Esq . ] By George Gran- ville , Lord Lansdowne , " p . 6. 4to . 1732 . • MSS . Harl . 1094 , -1553- daughter and heir of Sir John Beville , of Chester- 10 THE LIFE OF.
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... Thomas Shadwell , observes in a note , that at the Universities , noblemen's sons are called noblemen . Granting for a moment that this improbable story was true , it is not very easy to discover on what ground our great animosity by ...
... Thomas Shadwell , observes in a note , that at the Universities , noblemen's sons are called noblemen . Granting for a moment that this improbable story was true , it is not very easy to discover on what ground our great animosity by ...
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... Thomas Swift , Vicar of Goodrich , in Here . fordshire , whose wife ( a kinswoman of our author , ) was robbed by one of these sequestrators of all her household goods , some of which she repurchased from her plun- derer , and then she ...
... Thomas Swift , Vicar of Goodrich , in Here . fordshire , whose wife ( a kinswoman of our author , ) was robbed by one of these sequestrators of all her household goods , some of which she repurchased from her plun- derer , and then she ...
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Страница xviii - The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled : every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid : the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous ; what is little, is gay ; what is great, is splendid.
Страница 143 - With public zeal to cancel private crimes. How safe is treason and how sacred ill, Where none can sin against the people's will, "Where crowds can wink and no offence be known, Since in another's guilt they find their own ! Yet fame deserved no enemy can grudge ; The statesman we abhor, but praise the judge.
Страница 390 - He sought the storms ; but for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands, to boast his wit Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Страница viii - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
Страница 479 - ... out of the country with one : however, in spite of my bashfulness and appearance, I used now and then to thrust myself into Will's, to have the pleasure of seeing the most celebrated wits of that time, who used to resort thither.
Страница 134 - I have sent you herewith a libel, in which my own share is not the least. The king having perused it, is no way dissatisfied with his. The author is apparently Mr Dr[yden], his patron, Lord M[ulgrave,] having a panegyric in the midst.
Страница x - To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.
Страница 179 - Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry.
Страница 150 - tis for parents to forgive! With how few tears a pardon might be won From nature, pleading for a darling son!
Страница 460 - He was of very easy, I may say, of very pleasing access ; but something slow, and, as it were, diffident in his advances to others. He had something in his nature, that abhorred intrusion into any society whatsoever.