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Pagina iv
Here he continued to cultivate poetry and criticifm , and grew firft eminent by his Latin compofitions , which are indeed entitled to particular praife , and feem to have had much of his fondness . In his twenty - fecond year he first ...
Here he continued to cultivate poetry and criticifm , and grew firft eminent by his Latin compofitions , which are indeed entitled to particular praife , and feem to have had much of his fondness . In his twenty - fecond year he first ...
Pagina vi
In the following year he was at Hanover with lord Halifax ; and the year after was made under - fecretary of ftate , firft to Sir Charles Hedges , and in a few months more to the earl of Sunderland . About this time he wrote the opera ...
In the following year he was at Hanover with lord Halifax ; and the year after was made under - fecretary of ftate , firft to Sir Charles Hedges , and in a few months more to the earl of Sunderland . About this time he wrote the opera ...
Pagina vii
The Spectator , in one of the firft papers , fhewed the political tenets of its authors ; but a refolution was foon taken of courting general approbation by general topicks , and fubjects on which faction had produced no diversity of ...
The Spectator , in one of the firft papers , fhewed the political tenets of its authors ; but a refolution was foon taken of courting general approbation by general topicks , and fubjects on which faction had produced no diversity of ...
Pagina viii
... and taught the frolick and the gay to unite merriment with decency ; an effect which they can never wholly lofe , while they continue to be among the firft books by which both fexes are initiated in the elegancies of knowledge .
... and taught the frolick and the gay to unite merriment with decency ; an effect which they can never wholly lofe , while they continue to be among the firft books by which both fexes are initiated in the elegancies of knowledge .
Pagina xii
His advances at firft were certainly timorous , but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at laft the lady was perfuaded to marry him , on terms much like thofe on which a Turkia princefs is efpoufed , to whom the ...
His advances at firft were certainly timorous , but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at laft the lady was perfuaded to marry him , on terms much like thofe on which a Turkia princefs is efpoufed , to whom the ...
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