The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina viii
... King conferred upon him a pension of three hundred pounds a year : not , Lord Bute assured him , ' for anything you are to do , but for what you have done . ' Thus for the remainder of his days the sage was independent of the precarious ...
... King conferred upon him a pension of three hundred pounds a year : not , Lord Bute assured him , ' for anything you are to do , but for what you have done . ' Thus for the remainder of his days the sage was independent of the precarious ...
Pàgina xxv
... king , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for , no sooner is he safe , than he finds himself in danger , fallen on evil days and evil tongues , and with darkness and with danger compassed round . This ...
... king , was perhaps more than he hoped , seems not to have satisfied him ; for , no sooner is he safe , than he finds himself in danger , fallen on evil days and evil tongues , and with darkness and with danger compassed round . This ...
Pàgina xxvi
... King's English ' ; that these distressing defects are peculiarly conspicuous in the Life of Savage , but are , happily , somewhat toned down in the other Lives , which have an infinite advantage in being much more ' conversational ' in ...
... King's English ' ; that these distressing defects are peculiarly conspicuous in the Life of Savage , but are , happily , somewhat toned down in the other Lives , which have an infinite advantage in being much more ' conversational ' in ...
Pàgina 6
... King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the parlia- ment , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the ...
... King , and amongst others of Lord Falkland , whose notice cast a lustre on all to whom it was extended . About the time when Oxford was surrendered to the parlia- ment , he followed the Queen to Paris , where he became secretary to the ...
Pàgina 8
... King is persuaded of it . And to tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . ' This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as ...
... King is persuaded of it . And to tell you the truth ( which I take to be an argument above all the rest ) , Virgil has told the same thing to that purpose . ' This expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as ...
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