The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 2Methuen, 1896 |
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... probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his college was such as has been told ; but the indecency and licentiousness of his be- haviour drew upon him ...
... probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his college was such as has been told ; but the indecency and licentiousness of his be- haviour drew upon him ...
Pàgina 39
... probably published more than he owned . He left many com- positions behind him , of which Pope selected those which he thought best , and dedicated them to the Earl of Oxford . Of these Goldsmith has given an opinion , and his criticism ...
... probably published more than he owned . He left many com- positions behind him , of which Pope selected those which he thought best , and dedicated them to the Earl of Oxford . Of these Goldsmith has given an opinion , and his criticism ...
Pàgina 46
... probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature ...
... probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature ...
Pàgina 55
... probably not long , under Mr. Shaw , then master of the school at Lichfield , father of the late Dr. Peter Shaw . Of this interval his biographers have given no account , and I know it only from a story of a barring - out , told me when ...
... probably not long , under Mr. Shaw , then master of the school at Lichfield , father of the late Dr. Peter Shaw . Of this interval his biographers have given no account , and I know it only from a story of a barring - out , told me when ...
Pàgina 57
... probably the effect of his civility rather than appro- bation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The ...
... probably the effect of his civility rather than appro- bation . Three of his Latin poems are upon subjects on which perhaps he would not have ventured to have written in his own language . The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes ; The ...
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