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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... poems , as an inexhauftible fource of learning , fcience , and knowledge , others have affirmed . it to be nothing but an unintelligible rhapfody , a heap of foolish conceits , without meaning , without coherence ; a collection of grofs ...
... poems , as an inexhauftible fource of learning , fcience , and knowledge , others have affirmed . it to be nothing but an unintelligible rhapfody , a heap of foolish conceits , without meaning , without coherence ; a collection of grofs ...
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... Poems , humour . The principal of them were published in 8vo . vol . I. p . 1682 , under the title of " The Ramble , an Anti - heroick 141 . " Poem , together with fome Terreftrial Hymns and 163 . " Carnal Ejaculations , by Alexander ...
... Poems , humour . The principal of them were published in 8vo . vol . I. p . 1682 , under the title of " The Ramble , an Anti - heroick 141 . " Poem , together with fome Terreftrial Hymns and 163 . " Carnal Ejaculations , by Alexander ...
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... poem , intituled " Night , " of which Pope thus takes notice in the Dunciad : Silence , ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls , And makes night hideous - anfwer him , ye owls ! He wrote fome pieces for the stage , of which an account ...
... poem , intituled " Night , " of which Pope thus takes notice in the Dunciad : Silence , ye wolves ! while Ralph to Cynthia howls , And makes night hideous - anfwer him , ye owls ! He wrote fome pieces for the stage , of which an account ...
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... poem to him , which is printed among his works . Like a true poet , Randolph had a thorough contempt for wealth , and as ... poems were collected , and publifhed in one volume , by his brother Robert Randolph ; the fifth edition of which ...
... poem to him , which is printed among his works . Like a true poet , Randolph had a thorough contempt for wealth , and as ... poems were collected , and publifhed in one volume , by his brother Robert Randolph ; the fifth edition of which ...
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... poems , confifting of odes , epitaphs , facred eclogues , and thefe four books upon Gardens , were collected and published at Paris 1681 , in 2 vols . 12mo . He applied himself afterwards to write in French , and fucceeded very well in ...
... poems , confifting of odes , epitaphs , facred eclogues , and thefe four books upon Gardens , were collected and published at Paris 1681 , in 2 vols . 12mo . He applied himself afterwards to write in French , and fucceeded very well in ...
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