Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeCassell, 1889 - 192 pagina's |
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Pagina 17
... hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : -- Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul et Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H.S.E. Vir Eximius Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO ...
... hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : -- Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti , Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul et Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18. An . Dom . 1721. Etat . 57 . H.S.E. Vir Eximius Serenissimis Regi GULIELMO ...
Pagina 31
... hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry ...
... hundred pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally pleasing with his writings . Such a comedy , written at such an age , requires some consideration . As the lighter species of dramatic poetry ...
Pagina 36
... hundred pounds a year . His honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect , and among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his " Miscellany , " and Pope inscribed to ...
... hundred pounds a year . His honours were yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect , and among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his " Miscellany , " and Pope inscribed to ...
Pagina 44
... hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a performance perfection cannot be expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his ...
... hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a performance perfection cannot be expected ; but he finds another reason for the severity of his ...
Pagina 50
... hundred years without any improvement , or , if they have ventured farther , have only applied in a me- chanical manner the rules of ancient critics to modern writings , and with great labour discovered nothing but their own want of ...
... hundred years without any improvement , or , if they have ventured farther , have only applied in a me- chanical manner the rules of ancient critics to modern writings , and with great labour discovered nothing but their own want of ...
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