Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2J. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1925 - 787 pagina's |
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Pagina 77
... once more at dramatic poetry , for which he was now better qualified by a more extensive knowledge and longer observation . But having been unsuccessful in comedy , though rather for want of opportunities than genius , he resolved now ...
... once more at dramatic poetry , for which he was now better qualified by a more extensive knowledge and longer observation . But having been unsuccessful in comedy , though rather for want of opportunities than genius , he resolved now ...
Pagina 118
... once paid him should be restored ; but with whom he never appeared to entertain for a moment the thought of soliciting a recon- ciliation , and whom he treated at once with all the haughtiness of superiority and all the bitterness of ...
... once paid him should be restored ; but with whom he never appeared to entertain for a moment the thought of soliciting a recon- ciliation , and whom he treated at once with all the haughtiness of superiority and all the bitterness of ...
Pagina 291
... once reading to Dodington , who being himself a reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hands , and told him that he did not understand his own verses . The biographer ...
... once reading to Dodington , who being himself a reader eminently elegant , was so much provoked by his odd utterance , that he snatched the paper from his hands , and told him that he did not understand his own verses . The biographer ...
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WILLIAM CONGREVE 1670172829 | 29 |
JOHN GAY 16881732 | 35 |
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