The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina 22
... tell him , when he offered to acknowledge her , that it was too late . She then gave up herself to sorrowful resentment , and died under the tyranny of him by whom she was in the highest degree loved and honoured . What were her claims ...
... tell him , when he offered to acknowledge her , that it was too late . She then gave up herself to sorrowful resentment , and died under the tyranny of him by whom she was in the highest degree loved and honoured . What were her claims ...
Pàgina 23
... tell him that I was not the author ; and therefore I tell you , Mr. Bettesworth , that I am not the author of these lines . ' Bettesworth was so little satisfied with this account , that he publicly professed his resolution of a violent ...
... tell him that I was not the author ; and therefore I tell you , Mr. Bettesworth , that I am not the author of these lines . ' Bettesworth was so little satisfied with this account , that he publicly professed his resolution of a violent ...
Pàgina 30
... tell you one that first comes into my head . One evening , Gay and I went to see him - you know how intimately we were all acquainted . On our coming in , " Hey- day , gentlemen ( says the doctor ) , what's the meaning of this visit ...
... tell you one that first comes into my head . One evening , Gay and I went to see him - you know how intimately we were all acquainted . On our coming in , " Hey- day , gentlemen ( says the doctor ) , what's the meaning of this visit ...
Pàgina 34
... tell the reader what he knows already , and to find faults of which the author could not be ignorant , who certainly wrote often not his judgment , but his humour . It was said , in a preface to one of the Irish editions , that Swift ...
... tell the reader what he knows already , and to find faults of which the author could not be ignorant , who certainly wrote often not his judgment , but his humour . It was said , in a preface to one of the Irish editions , that Swift ...
Pàgina 47
... tell me whether he be a proper author to make personal reflections ? —He may extol the ancients , but he has reason to thank the gods that he was born a modern ; for had he been born of Grecian parents , and his father con- sequently ...
... tell me whether he be a proper author to make personal reflections ? —He may extol the ancients , but he has reason to thank the gods that he was born a modern ; for had he been born of Grecian parents , and his father con- sequently ...
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