The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... easily furnished . " I am not free of the poets company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission - poem , but a downright interloper . Those gen- tlemen who carry on their poetical trade ...
... easily furnished . " I am not free of the poets company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission - poem , but a downright interloper . Those gen- tlemen who carry on their poetical trade ...
Pàgina 15
... imagined himself to have contributed , cannot now be known . That he had been of considerable use , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him to have been very honest ; but he might easily make a false estimate BLACKMORE . 15.
... imagined himself to have contributed , cannot now be known . That he had been of considerable use , I doubt not but he believed , for I hold him to have been very honest ; but he might easily make a false estimate BLACKMORE . 15.
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... easily confederated against him , as Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had besides given them reason for resent- ment , as , in his preface to Prince Arthur , he had said of the dramatic ...
... easily confederated against him , as Dryden , whose favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had besides given them reason for resent- ment , as , in his preface to Prince Arthur , he had said of the dramatic ...
Pàgina 32
... ( 1729 ) a very splendid edition of Waller , with notes often useful , often entertaining , but too much extended by long quotations from Clarendon . Illustrations , drawn from a book so easily consulted , 32 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... ( 1729 ) a very splendid edition of Waller , with notes often useful , often entertaining , but too much extended by long quotations from Clarendon . Illustrations , drawn from a book so easily consulted , 32 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Pàgina 33
... easily consulted , should be made by reference rather than transcription . The latter part of his life was calm and pleasant . The relict of sir William Trumbull invited him , by Pope's re- commendation , to educate her son ; whom he ...
... easily consulted , should be made by reference rather than transcription . The latter part of his life was calm and pleasant . The relict of sir William Trumbull invited him , by Pope's re- commendation , to educate her son ; whom he ...
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