The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... called The Key to the What d'ye call it ? which , says Gay , " calls me a block- head , and mr . Pope a knave . " But fortune has always been inconstant . Not long af terwards , ( 1717 ) , he endeavoured to entertain the town with Three ...
... called The Key to the What d'ye call it ? which , says Gay , " calls me a block- head , and mr . Pope a knave . " But fortune has always been inconstant . Not long af terwards , ( 1717 ) , he endeavoured to entertain the town with Three ...
Pàgina 40
... called his friends to a consultation , what use might be best made of it . Lewis , the steward of lord Oxford , advised him to intrust it to the funds , and live upon the interest ; Arbuthnot bade him intrust it to providence , and live ...
... called his friends to a consultation , what use might be best made of it . Lewis , the steward of lord Oxford , advised him to intrust it to the funds , and live upon the interest ; Arbuthnot bade him intrust it to providence , and live ...
Pàgina 43
... called op- pression ended in profit . The publication was so much favoured , that though the first part gained him four hun- dred pounds , near thrice as much was the profit of the second . * He received yet another recompence for this ...
... called op- pression ended in profit . The publication was so much favoured , that though the first part gained him four hun- dred pounds , near thrice as much was the profit of the second . * He received yet another recompence for this ...
Pàgina 44
... called The Distrest Wife , and The Rehearsal at Gotham , a piece of humour . The character given him by Pope is this , that " he was natural man , without design , who spoke what he thought , and just as he thought it ; " and that " he ...
... called The Distrest Wife , and The Rehearsal at Gotham , a piece of humour . The character given him by Pope is this , that " he was natural man , without design , who spoke what he thought , and just as he thought it ; " and that " he ...
Pàgina 45
... called , it will be difficult to extract any moral principle . They are , however , told with liveliness ; the versification is smooth ; and the diction , though now and then a little constrained by the measure or the rhyme , is ...
... called , it will be difficult to extract any moral principle . They are , however , told with liveliness ; the versification is smooth ; and the diction , though now and then a little constrained by the measure or the rhyme , is ...
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