The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina xxi
... obtaining and preserving the friendship of the wise and the worthy . Thus loved and venerated , Johnson might have been pronounced happy . But Heaven , in whose eyes strength is weakness , permitted his faculties to be clouded occa ...
... obtaining and preserving the friendship of the wise and the worthy . Thus loved and venerated , Johnson might have been pronounced happy . But Heaven , in whose eyes strength is weakness , permitted his faculties to be clouded occa ...
Pàgina 5
... obtained an order to be created doctor of physic ; which being done to his mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no ...
... obtained an order to be created doctor of physic ; which being done to his mind ( whereby he gained the ill - will of some of his friends ) , he went into France again , having made a copy of verses on Oliver's death . " This is no ...
Pàgina 7
... obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Albans , and the Duke of Buckingham , such lease of the queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy ...
... obtained , by the interest of the Earl of St. Albans , and the Duke of Buckingham , such lease of the queen's lands as afforded him an ample income . By the lovers of virtue and of wit it will be solicitously asked , if he now was happy ...
Pàgina 33
... obtained that which many missed , the reward of his loyalty ; being made surveyor of the king's buildings , and dignified with the order of the Bath . He seems now to have learned some attention to money ; for Wood says , that he got by ...
... obtained that which many missed , the reward of his loyalty ; being made surveyor of the king's buildings , and dignified with the order of the Bath . He seems now to have learned some attention to money ; for Wood says , that he got by ...
Pàgina 37
... obtained permission to live in quiet , he supported himself so honourably by chamber - practice , that , soon after the accession of King James , he was knighted and made a judge ; but , his constitution being too weak for business , he ...
... obtained permission to live in quiet , he supported himself so honourably by chamber - practice , that , soon after the accession of King James , he was knighted and made a judge ; but , his constitution being too weak for business , he ...
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