The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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Pàgina 48
... desire , at this import- ant juncture , to venture my life , in some manner or other , for my king and my country . 66 " I cannot bear living under the reproach of lying ob- scure and idle in a country retirement , when every man who ...
... desire , at this import- ant juncture , to venture my life , in some manner or other , for my king and my country . 66 " I cannot bear living under the reproach of lying ob- scure and idle in a country retirement , when every man who ...
Pàgina 60
... desire him to look over my first book , because , if he did , it would have the air of double - dealing . ' I assured him that I did not at all take it ill of mr . Tickell that he was going to publish his translation ; that he certainly ...
... desire him to look over my first book , because , if he did , it would have the air of double - dealing . ' I assured him that I did not at all take it ill of mr . Tickell that he was going to publish his translation ; that he certainly ...
Pàgina 90
... desire to speak to his mother , who always avoided him in public , and refused him admission into her house . One evening , walking , as it was his cus- tom , in the street that she inhabited , he saw the door of her house by accident ...
... desire to speak to his mother , who always avoided him in public , and refused him admission into her house . One evening , walking , as it was his cus- tom , in the street that she inhabited , he saw the door of her house by accident ...
Pàgina 102
... desire of pleasure , and habitual slavery to his passions , which involved him in many perplexities . He happened at that time to be engaged in the pursuit of some trifling gratifi- cation , and , being without money for the present ...
... desire of pleasure , and habitual slavery to his passions , which involved him in many perplexities . He happened at that time to be engaged in the pursuit of some trifling gratifi- cation , and , being without money for the present ...
Pàgina 115
... in the queen too much desire of hearing her own praises , and a greater regard to herself than to him on whom her bounty was The poem is inserted in the late collection . conferred . It was a kind of avaricious generosity , SAVAGE . 115.
... in the queen too much desire of hearing her own praises , and a greater regard to herself than to him on whom her bounty was The poem is inserted in the late collection . conferred . It was a kind of avaricious generosity , SAVAGE . 115.
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