A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish, from the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions Or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning are Accurately Displayed : with a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions, Volumen 5T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others], 1761 |
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... poets , but he has carried his criticism even into the fcripture itself : in which " he has made free with many places ... poet himself had affected to be obfcure . At least , it feems abfurd to find in the " fame volume , an explication ...
... poets , but he has carried his criticism even into the fcripture itself : in which " he has made free with many places ... poet himself had affected to be obfcure . At least , it feems abfurd to find in the " fame volume , an explication ...
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... Poets , & c . His poems are written with great purity and elegance ; and he is remarkable for being fhort , yet not ... poet , an able phyfician , a great orator , and a learned civilian . He gained the efteem of all the learned men in ...
... Poets , & c . His poems are written with great purity and elegance ; and he is remarkable for being fhort , yet not ... poet , an able phyfician , a great orator , and a learned civilian . He gained the efteem of all the learned men in ...
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... poets , who spend their time in making anagrams , or smutty verses , as alfo those who affect to despise poets . He was the author alfo of a Latin poem , in which is told at large , the following remarkable ftory of a Dutch maid ...
... poets , who spend their time in making anagrams , or smutty verses , as alfo those who affect to despise poets . He was the author alfo of a Latin poem , in which is told at large , the following remarkable ftory of a Dutch maid ...
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... poet and critic , and flourished in the fixteenth century . He was fo fkilled in every thing re lating to polite literature , that the cardinal de Medicis , after- wards pope Pius IV . was particularly fond of him . He was the author of ...
... poet and critic , and flourished in the fixteenth century . He was fo fkilled in every thing re lating to polite literature , that the cardinal de Medicis , after- wards pope Pius IV . was particularly fond of him . He was the author of ...
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... poet , of whom less mention seems to have been made by biographers , than he deferved . He flourished in the reigns of queen Eliza- beth and king James I. and dedicated a tranflation of Taffo to the former . He was natural fon of fir ...
... poet , of whom less mention seems to have been made by biographers , than he deferved . He flourished in the reigns of queen Eliza- beth and king James I. and dedicated a tranflation of Taffo to the former . He was natural fon of fir ...
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