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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... poetry . His works confift of facred odes , paftorals , letters , and memoirs , of the life of Malherbe , prefixed to many editions of the works of that poet . He was chofen one of the members of the French academy , at the time of its ...
... poetry . His works confift of facred odes , paftorals , letters , and memoirs , of the life of Malherbe , prefixed to many editions of the works of that poet . He was chofen one of the members of the French academy , at the time of its ...
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... poets and poetry , do not avec les ad " always meet in the fame perfon . " Racine's dramatic character embroiled him at this time with the gentlemen of Port - Royal . Mr. Nicole , in his B 3 " Vifionaires Valincour ditions de ce Sçavant ...
... poets and poetry , do not avec les ad " always meet in the fame perfon . " Racine's dramatic character embroiled him at this time with the gentlemen of Port - Royal . Mr. Nicole , in his B 3 " Vifionaires Valincour ditions de ce Sçavant ...
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... poets of the theatre , whom he called the public poi- foners , not of bodies , but of fouls : " des empoifon ... poet whofe name is not worth remembering , was then em- ployed by perfons of the first diftinction to have a Phædra " ready ...
... poets of the theatre , whom he called the public poi- foners , not of bodies , but of fouls : " des empoifon ... poet whofe name is not worth remembering , was then em- ployed by perfons of the first diftinction to have a Phædra " ready ...
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... poet , than philofopher ? " His religious di- Siecle de rector , however , not fo mad , but a good deal wifer than he ... poetry , yet he was again drawn , in fpite of all the refiftance he could make , to labour for the theatre . Madam ...
... poet , than philofopher ? " His religious di- Siecle de rector , however , not fo mad , but a good deal wifer than he ... poetry , yet he was again drawn , in fpite of all the refiftance he could make , to labour for the theatre . Madam ...
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... poetry , and now renounced it totally . He ipent the latter years of his life in com- pofing a hiftory of the houfe ... poet . Though he had converfed much with the court , he had not learned the wildom , which is ufually learned there ...
... poetry , and now renounced it totally . He ipent the latter years of his life in com- pofing a hiftory of the houfe ... poet . Though he had converfed much with the court , he had not learned the wildom , which is ufually learned there ...
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