Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1967 |
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Pagina 65
... thing a Newgate Pastoral might make . Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan . This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera . He began on it ...
... thing a Newgate Pastoral might make . Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time ; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan . This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera . He began on it ...
Pagina 214
... thing by you , I am determined . " - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and , in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary , he actually obliged us to take the money . ' In the intercourse ...
... thing by you , I am determined . " - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and , in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary , he actually obliged us to take the money . ' In the intercourse ...
Pagina 299
... thing to write because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge , and another , to solicit the imagination because ceremony or vanity requires some- thing to be written . Pope confesses his early Letters to be vitiated with ...
... thing to write because there is something which the mind wishes to discharge , and another , to solicit the imagination because ceremony or vanity requires some- thing to be written . Pope confesses his early Letters to be vitiated with ...
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