The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 2
... pleasures , and who , having loft one part of life in idlenefs , are tempted to throw away the remainder in despair . In this courfe of daily application he continued three years longer at Dublin ; and in this time , if the obfervation ...
... pleasures , and who , having loft one part of life in idlenefs , are tempted to throw away the remainder in despair . In this courfe of daily application he continued three years longer at Dublin ; and in this time , if the obfervation ...
Pàgina 5
... pleasure , however mingled with improvement , of Temple's converfation ; and grew fo impatient , that ( 1694 ) he went away in difcontent . Temple , confcious of having given reason for complaint , is faid to have made him Deputy Master ...
... pleasure , however mingled with improvement , of Temple's converfation ; and grew fo impatient , that ( 1694 ) he went away in difcontent . Temple , confcious of having given reason for complaint , is faid to have made him Deputy Master ...
Pàgina 21
... pleasure of accumulating money . His avarice , however , was not fuffered to obftruct the claims of his dignity ; he was ferved in plate , and used to say that he was the pooreft gentleman in Ireland that ate upon plate , and the ...
... pleasure of accumulating money . His avarice , however , was not fuffered to obftruct the claims of his dignity ; he was ferved in plate , and used to say that he was the pooreft gentleman in Ireland that ate upon plate , and the ...
Pàgina 22
... pleasure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , fhe grew fond of his perfon . Swift was then about forty- seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If ...
... pleasure in directing and instructing ; till , from being proud of his praise , fhe grew fond of his perfon . Swift was then about forty- seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If ...
Pàgina 27
... pleasure of popularity was foon interrupted by domeftick mifery . Mrs. Johnson , whose conver- fation was to him the great foftener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to de- cline ; and two years afterwards ...
... pleasure of popularity was foon interrupted by domeftick mifery . Mrs. Johnson , whose conver- fation was to him the great foftener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to de- cline ; and two years afterwards ...
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