Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Том 2C. Whittingham, Dean Street, 1805 |
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... Night Thoughts , which was begun after he was turned of sixty . The daughter of Lady Elizabeth , who had been married but a year to Mr. Temple , son of Lord Palmerston , died of a consumption at Lyons in 1736 ; her husband followed her ...
... Night Thoughts , which was begun after he was turned of sixty . The daughter of Lady Elizabeth , who had been married but a year to Mr. Temple , son of Lord Palmerston , died of a consumption at Lyons in 1736 ; her husband followed her ...
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... Night Thoughts form a poem which is , perhaps , more than any other in our language perfectly original . I will not affirm , however , that this originality is of the best kind ; on the contrary , the work is , in my opinion , greatly ...
... Night Thoughts form a poem which is , perhaps , more than any other in our language perfectly original . I will not affirm , however , that this originality is of the best kind ; on the contrary , the work is , in my opinion , greatly ...
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... Night Thoughts is so dark and querulous , so evidently the result of morbid melancholy , that I much question whe- ther any person has been benefited by their pe- rusal . They appear to me calculated to throw an air of dissatisfaction ...
... Night Thoughts is so dark and querulous , so evidently the result of morbid melancholy , that I much question whe- ther any person has been benefited by their pe- rusal . They appear to me calculated to throw an air of dissatisfaction ...
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... Night Thoughts wrote a va- riety of pieces , both in prose and verse , beside those which we have already mentioned . He was at one time extremely partial to Lyric poe- try , and published several elaborate odes , under the titles of ...
... Night Thoughts wrote a va- riety of pieces , both in prose and verse , beside those which we have already mentioned . He was at one time extremely partial to Lyric poe- try , and published several elaborate odes , under the titles of ...
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... Night Thoughts , he had the judgment to discard several of these abortive efforts , many adulatory copies of verses , and nearly all his dedications . Dr. Young expired in his rectory at Welwyn , in April 1765 , having attained the age ...
... Night Thoughts , he had the judgment to discard several of these abortive efforts , many adulatory copies of verses , and nearly all his dedications . Dr. Young expired in his rectory at Welwyn , in April 1765 , having attained the age ...
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