The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations of Their Works, Volum 2Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
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... 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 , requires some considera- tion . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry professes the ...
... 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 , requires some considera- tion . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry professes the ...
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... pounds a year . " 13 14 His honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his Miscellany , and Pope in- scribed to ...
... pounds a year . " 13 14 His honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and , among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his Miscellany , and Pope in- scribed to ...
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... pounds ; the accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , though to her superfluous and useless , might have given great assist- ance to the ancient family from which he descended , at that time by the imprudence of his relation ...
... pounds ; the accumulation of attentive parsimony , which , though to her superfluous and useless , might have given great assist- ance to the ancient family from which he descended , at that time by the imprudence of his relation ...
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... , and so may have a finer piece than a man who has ten thousand pounds ; but then he has only one ten - guinea piece . " - Boswell by Croker , p . 208 . VOL . II . 2 " The rocks are cleft , and new - descending CONGREVE . 25.
... , and so may have a finer piece than a man who has ten thousand pounds ; but then he has only one ten - guinea piece . " - Boswell by Croker , p . 208 . VOL . II . 2 " The rocks are cleft , and new - descending CONGREVE . 25.
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... Pound , shall make you half a Job . - POPE to the Earl of Burlington . Dennis attacks him about the coach in the Prologue spoken by Joe Haines before ' A Plot and No Plot , ' 1697 . 6 Preface to King Arthur , ' 1697 . 7 Compare vol . i ...
... Pound , shall make you half a Job . - POPE to the Earl of Burlington . Dennis attacks him about the coach in the Prologue spoken by Joe Haines before ' A Plot and No Plot , ' 1697 . 6 Preface to King Arthur , ' 1697 . 7 Compare vol . i ...
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