The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 3: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 31
... Lady would enrapture , and a very little virtue would astonish him . Stella's fupremacy , therefore , was perhaps only local ; she was great , because her affociates were little . In fome Remarks lately published on the Life of Swift ...
... Lady would enrapture , and a very little virtue would astonish him . Stella's fupremacy , therefore , was perhaps only local ; she was great , because her affociates were little . In fome Remarks lately published on the Life of Swift ...
Pàgina 68
... Lady " were written about the time when his " Effay " was published . The Lady's name and adventures I have fought with fruit- lefs enquiry * . I can therefore tell no more than I have learned from Mr. Ruff head , who writes with the ...
... Lady " were written about the time when his " Effay " was published . The Lady's name and adventures I have fought with fruit- lefs enquiry * . I can therefore tell no more than I have learned from Mr. Ruff head , who writes with the ...
Pàgina 69
... Lady's character , it does not appear that she had any claim to praife , nor much to compaffion . She feems to have been impatient , violent , and un- governable . Her uncle's power could not have lafted long ; the hour of liberty and ...
... Lady's character , it does not appear that she had any claim to praife , nor much to compaffion . She feems to have been impatient , violent , and un- governable . Her uncle's power could not have lafted long ; the hour of liberty and ...
Pàgina 70
... Lady , who liked it well enough to fhew it ; and , with the ufual procefs of literary tranfactions , the author , dreading a furreptitious edition , was forced to pub- lifh it . The event is faid to have been fuch as was defired , the ...
... Lady , who liked it well enough to fhew it ; and , with the ufual procefs of literary tranfactions , the author , dreading a furreptitious edition , was forced to pub- lifh it . The event is faid to have been fuch as was defired , the ...
Pàgina 143
... lady , who , when he came to her , afked , " What , is he not " dead yet ? " She is faid to have neglected him , with fhameful unkindness , in the latter time of his decay ; decay ; yet , of the little which he had POPE . 143.
... lady , who , when he came to her , afked , " What , is he not " dead yet ? " She is faid to have neglected him , with fhameful unkindness , in the latter time of his decay ; decay ; yet , of the little which he had POPE . 143.
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