The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 6. köideSamuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... called fabulous or improbable . The fucceeding Cantos are introduced with large prefaces , but here the Poet feems impatient till he get into the defcription and character of his hero . Ver . 17 , 18. ] i . e . He kneeled to the King ...
... called fabulous or improbable . The fucceeding Cantos are introduced with large prefaces , but here the Poet feems impatient till he get into the defcription and character of his hero . Ver . 17 , 18. ] i . e . He kneeled to the King ...
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... called ) a malignant pfalm . Ibid.- ] Lord Clarendon obferves , " That after the " declaration of No more Addreffes to the King , they " who were not above the condition of ordinary con- " stables fix or seven years before , were now ...
... called ) a malignant pfalm . Ibid.- ] Lord Clarendon obferves , " That after the " declaration of No more Addreffes to the King , they " who were not above the condition of ordinary con- " stables fix or seven years before , were now ...
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... called ; he was an Englishman , born in Gloucestershire , and flourished about the year 1236 , at the time when what was called School - divinity was much in vogue ; in which fcience he was fo deeply read , that he was called Doctor ...
... called ; he was an Englishman , born in Gloucestershire , and flourished about the year 1236 , at the time when what was called School - divinity was much in vogue ; in which fcience he was fo deeply read , that he was called Doctor ...
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... called the Angelic Deftor , and Eagle of divines . The moft illuftrious perfons of his time were ambitious of his friendship , and put a high value on his merits , fo that they offered him bishopricks , which he refused with as much ar ...
... called the Angelic Deftor , and Eagle of divines . The moft illuftrious perfons of his time were ambitious of his friendship , and put a high value on his merits , fo that they offered him bishopricks , which he refused with as much ar ...
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... called Doctor Subtilis , which was the reafon alfo that an old punster always called him the Latby Doctor . Ver . 155 , 156. ] Gulielmus Occham was father of the Nominals , and Johannes Dunfcotus of the Reals . These two lines not in ...
... called Doctor Subtilis , which was the reafon alfo that an old punster always called him the Latby Doctor . Ver . 155 , 156. ] Gulielmus Occham was father of the Nominals , and Johannes Dunfcotus of the Reals . These two lines not in ...
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