The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of the first of these titles ; but others , who knew him better , could not for- bear doing him justice as a prodigy in both kinds . He had ...
... pleased to distinguish between the wit and the scholar , extolled him altogether on the account of the first of these titles ; but others , who knew him better , could not for- bear doing him justice as a prodigy in both kinds . He had ...
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... pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success ...
... pleased the critics , and the critics only . It was , as Addison has recorded , hardly heard the third night . Smith had indeed trusted entirely to his merit ; had ensured no band of applauders , nor used any artifice to force success ...
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... pleased with the contradic- tion of a shopman , and boastful of his own knowledge , treated the notice with rude contempt , and swallowed his own medicine , which , in July 1710 , brought him to the grave . He was buried at Gartham ...
... pleased with the contradic- tion of a shopman , and boastful of his own knowledge , treated the notice with rude contempt , and swallowed his own medicine , which , in July 1710 , brought him to the grave . He was buried at Gartham ...
Pàgina 51
... pleased as when Mr. Rowe was in his company . After the Duke's death , all avenues were stopped to his pre- ferment ; and during the rest of that reign he passed his time with the muses and his books , and sometimes the conversation of ...
... pleased as when Mr. Rowe was in his company . After the Duke's death , all avenues were stopped to his pre- ferment ; and during the rest of that reign he passed his time with the muses and his books , and sometimes the conversation of ...
Pàgina 66
... pleased Addison , who , when he dismissed him from the club , changed his opinions . Steele had made him , in the true spirit of unfeeling commerce , declare that he would not build an hospital for idle people ; but at last he buys land ...
... pleased Addison , who , when he dismissed him from the club , changed his opinions . Steele had made him , in the true spirit of unfeeling commerce , declare that he would not build an hospital for idle people ; but at last he buys land ...
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