Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 |
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Pagina 158
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be expected to do but little . If an academician's place were profitable , it would be given by interest ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
... present time is very different from that of the last century . In this country an academy could be expected to do but little . If an academician's place were profitable , it would be given by interest ; if attendance were gratuitous ...
Pagina 230
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
... present writers are by these wretches reduced to the same condition Virgil was , when the centurion seized on his estate . But I don't doubt but I can fix upon the Maecenas of the present age , that will retrieve them from it . But ...
Pagina 372
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ...
... present Majesty , and the present Government ; a performance which he thought convenient , after the Revolution , to extenuate and excuse . The same year , being clerk of the closet to the king , he was made dean of the chapel - royal ...
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