The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... gave him a place in the pipe - office , and another in the customs of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age ...
... gave him a place in the pipe - office , and another in the customs of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age ...
Pàgina 3
... gave him a place in the pipe - office , and another in the customs of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age ...
... gave him a place in the pipe - office , and another in the customs of six hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age ...
Pàgina 10
... gave no proof that time had improved his wisdom or his wit ; for , on the death of the marquis of Blandford , this was his song : And now the winds , which had so long been still , Began the swelling air with sighs to fill ; The water ...
... gave no proof that time had improved his wisdom or his wit ; for , on the death of the marquis of Blandford , this was his song : And now the winds , which had so long been still , Began the swelling air with sighs to fill ; The water ...
Pàgina 17
... gave advice to painters . Not long after , ( 1712 ) , he published Creation , a philoso- phical poem , which has been , by my recommendation , in- serted in the late collection . Whoever judges of this by any other of Blackmore's ...
... gave advice to painters . Not long after , ( 1712 ) , he published Creation , a philoso- phical poem , which has been , by my recommendation , in- serted in the late collection . Whoever judges of this by any other of Blackmore's ...
Pàgina 38
... gave himself the pre- ference , while he seemed to disown it . Not content with this , he is supposed to have incited Gay to write The Shep- herd's Week , to shew , that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness , rural life ...
... gave himself the pre- ference , while he seemed to disown it . Not content with this , he is supposed to have incited Gay to write The Shep- herd's Week , to shew , that if it be necessary to copy nature with minuteness , rural life ...
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