The Miscellaneous Works: In Verse and Prose, Том 1W. Strahan, 1777 |
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... fight of a paper of his verfes , in the hands of Dr. Lancafter then Dean of that house , oc- cafioned his being elected into Magdalen college . He employed his first years in the ftudy of the old Greek and Roman writers ; whofe language ...
... fight of a paper of his verfes , in the hands of Dr. Lancafter then Dean of that house , oc- cafioned his being elected into Magdalen college . He employed his first years in the ftudy of the old Greek and Roman writers ; whofe language ...
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... fight , and fhews the vanity of conjectures , made by antiquaries at a distance . If the knowledge of polite literature has its ufe , there is certainly a merit in illustrating the perfect models of it , and the learned world will think ...
... fight , and fhews the vanity of conjectures , made by antiquaries at a distance . If the knowledge of polite literature has its ufe , there is certainly a merit in illustrating the perfect models of it , and the learned world will think ...
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... fight of this work , when it was only carried on as far as the applauded fimile of the Angel ; and approved the poem , by bestowing on the author , in a few . days after , the place of Commiffioner of appeals , vacant by the removal of ...
... fight of this work , when it was only carried on as far as the applauded fimile of the Angel ; and approved the poem , by bestowing on the author , in a few . days after , the place of Commiffioner of appeals , vacant by the removal of ...
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... fight ; If in the ftage I feek to footh my care , I meet his foul which breathes in Cate there ; If penfive to the rural fhades I rove , His fhape o'ertakes me in the lonely grove : ' Twas there of juft and good he reason'd strong ...
... fight ; If in the ftage I feek to footh my care , I meet his foul which breathes in Cate there ; If penfive to the rural fhades I rove , His fhape o'ertakes me in the lonely grove : ' Twas there of juft and good he reason'd strong ...
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... fight , Engag'd in tented fields , and rolling floods , Or flaught'ring mortals , or a match for gods . And here , perhaps , by fate's unerring doom , Some mighty bard lies hid in years to come , That shall in WILLIAM'S God - like acts ...
... fight , Engag'd in tented fields , and rolling floods , Or flaught'ring mortals , or a match for gods . And here , perhaps , by fate's unerring doom , Some mighty bard lies hid in years to come , That shall in WILLIAM'S God - like acts ...
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