Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina viii
... ADDISON . - 1672-1719 . Born at Milston , in Wiltshire - Educated at the Charter - house and Oxford - Is praised by Dryden Early Friendship for Steele - Intended for the Church - Encouraged by Somers and Montague - Travels in Italy ...
... ADDISON . - 1672-1719 . Born at Milston , in Wiltshire - Educated at the Charter - house and Oxford - Is praised by Dryden Early Friendship for Steele - Intended for the Church - Encouraged by Somers and Montague - Travels in Italy ...
Pàgina xi
... Addison is a long one , but it is done ; Prior is not short , and that is done too . I am upon Rowe , which cannot fill much paper . Seward called on me to - day and read Spence . " Five days later he continues to report the progress he ...
... Addison is a long one , but it is done ; Prior is not short , and that is done too . I am upon Rowe , which cannot fill much paper . Seward called on me to - day and read Spence . " Five days later he continues to report the progress he ...
Pàgina xii
... Addison , Prior , Rowe , Granville , Sheffield , Collins , Pitt , and almost Fenton . " Congreve was his next Life , and was soon written . " Congreve , whom I despatched at the Borough while I was attending the election , is one of the ...
... Addison , Prior , Rowe , Granville , Sheffield , Collins , Pitt , and almost Fenton . " Congreve was his next Life , and was soon written . " Congreve , whom I despatched at the Borough while I was attending the election , is one of the ...
Pàgina xiv
... Addison and Parnell drank too freely ; for peo- ple will probably more easily indulge in drinking from knowing this ; so that more ill may be done by the example than good by telling the whole truth . " Yet he observed on another ...
... Addison and Parnell drank too freely ; for peo- ple will probably more easily indulge in drinking from knowing this ; so that more ill may be done by the example than good by telling the whole truth . " Yet he observed on another ...
Pàgina xv
... Addison never printed his poem to Sacheverell , whereas it is to be seen with his other earliest printed productions in so common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a ...
... Addison never printed his poem to Sacheverell , whereas it is to be seen with his other earliest printed productions in so common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a ...
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