The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen8John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 |
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... himself records in one of his imitations of Horace . Bred up at home , full early I begun To read in Greek the wrath of Peleus ' fon . As he read the claffics , he amused himself with translating them ; and at fourteen made a version of ...
... himself records in one of his imitations of Horace . Bred up at home , full early I begun To read in Greek the wrath of Peleus ' fon . As he read the claffics , he amused himself with translating them ; and at fourteen made a version of ...
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... himself under the tuition of Jervas , to whom , about this time , he addreffed an enconiaftic Epifle , with " Dryden's tranflation of Fresnoy . " A picture of Betterton , copied by Pope from Kneller , was in the poffeffion of the late ...
... himself under the tuition of Jervas , to whom , about this time , he addreffed an enconiaftic Epifle , with " Dryden's tranflation of Fresnoy . " A picture of Betterton , copied by Pope from Kneller , was in the poffeffion of the late ...
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... himself , his affociates the reft . The account of the feveral fhares , fubjoined at the conclufion , is now known not to be true . The first , fourth , nineteenth , and twentieth books were tranflated by Fenton ; the fecond , fixth ...
... himself , his affociates the reft . The account of the feveral fhares , fubjoined at the conclufion , is now known not to be true . The first , fourth , nineteenth , and twentieth books were tranflated by Fenton ; the fecond , fixth ...
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... himself from cenfures , and , with dignity rather than arrogance , enforces his own claims to kindness and refpect . In the character of Sporus he ridicules Lord Her- vey , who had written an invective against him . Whether he or Pope ...
... himself from cenfures , and , with dignity rather than arrogance , enforces his own claims to kindness and refpect . In the character of Sporus he ridicules Lord Her- vey , who had written an invective against him . Whether he or Pope ...
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... himself erect till they were laced . His legs were fo flender , that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of ftockings , which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to drefs or undress himself , and neither went to ...
... himself erect till they were laced . His legs were fo flender , that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of ftockings , which were drawn on and off by the maid ; for he was not able to drefs or undress himself , and neither went to ...
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