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 ...W. Strahan, 1784 - Biography |
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... genius than his mafter ; and to have been as capable of writing in the Epic way , as he was in the Lyric , in which he particularly Sat. IX . & excelled . Menage has also spoken highly of Racan , in his Mr. Mau- additions and ...
... genius than his mafter ; and to have been as capable of writing in the Epic way , as he was in the Lyric , in which he particularly Sat. IX . & excelled . Menage has also spoken highly of Racan , in his Mr. Mau- additions and ...
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... genius , de Mr. de than dramatic . " Corneille , " adds de Valincour , " was inferée dans " incapable of low jealoufy if he fpoke fo to Mr. Racine , l'Hiftoire de " it is certain that he thought fo . But we know , that " Acad : mie " he ...
... genius , de Mr. de than dramatic . " Corneille , " adds de Valincour , " was inferée dans " incapable of low jealoufy if he fpoke fo to Mr. Racine , l'Hiftoire de " it is certain that he thought fo . But we know , that " Acad : mie " he ...
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... genius ; and one Pradon , a poet whofe name is not worth remembering , was then em- ployed by perfons of the first diftinction to have a Phædra " ready for the theatre , against the time that Racine's fhould appear . 66 After the ...
... genius ; and one Pradon , a poet whofe name is not worth remembering , was then em- ployed by perfons of the first diftinction to have a Phædra " ready for the theatre , against the time that Racine's fhould appear . 66 After the ...
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... genius ; and they judged also , " with reafon , that the , hiftory of fuch a prince neither " could nor ought to be written in fs than an hundred years after his death , unless it were to be made up of " extracts from Gazettes , and ...
... genius ; and they judged also , " with reafon , that the , hiftory of fuch a prince neither " could nor ought to be written in fs than an hundred years after his death , unless it were to be made up of " extracts from Gazettes , and ...
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... genius " and has fhewn by this , that whatever ingenuity and polite literature he might poffefs ( and he poffeffed a very confiderable portion of both ) , he : 66 was not qualified in any degree to judge of philofophers 7 was 24 + RAMSA ...
... genius " and has fhewn by this , that whatever ingenuity and polite literature he might poffefs ( and he poffeffed a very confiderable portion of both ) , he : 66 was not qualified in any degree to judge of philofophers 7 was 24 + RAMSA ...
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