The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... printed . His favourite maxim was vive la bagatelle ; he thought trifles a necessary part of life , and perhaps found them necessary to himself . It seems impossible to him to be idle , and his disorders made it difficult or dangerous ...
... printed . His favourite maxim was vive la bagatelle ; he thought trifles a necessary part of life , and perhaps found them necessary to himself . It seems impossible to him to be idle , and his disorders made it difficult or dangerous ...
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... printed soon after his death . These two performances show a mind in- cessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute occurrences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting ...
... printed soon after his death . These two performances show a mind in- cessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute occurrences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting ...
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... learned to write by imitating printed books ; a species of penmanship in which he retained great excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in 39 POPE.
... learned to write by imitating printed books ; a species of penmanship in which he retained great excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in 39 POPE.
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... printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . ' He had now formed his versification , and in the smoothness of his numbers surpassed his ...
... printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and professed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Silence , after Rochester's Nothing . ' He had now formed his versification , and in the smoothness of his numbers surpassed his ...
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... printed ( 1709 ) in Tonson's Miscellany , in a volume which began with the Pastorals of Philips , and ended with those of Pope . The same year was written the Essay on Criticism , a work which displays such extent of comprehension ...
... printed ( 1709 ) in Tonson's Miscellany , in a volume which began with the Pastorals of Philips , and ended with those of Pope . The same year was written the Essay on Criticism , a work which displays such extent of comprehension ...
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