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Pagina 56
... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multiplicity of his productions , there is sufficient reason to suspect that he was not a lover . To write con amore , with fondness for the employment , with perpetual touches and retouches ...
... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multiplicity of his productions , there is sufficient reason to suspect that he was not a lover . To write con amore , with fondness for the employment , with perpetual touches and retouches ...
Pagina 104
... he had no care to rise by con- tending with himself ; but , while there was no name above his own , was willing to enjoy fame on the easiest terms . He was no lover of labour . What he thought 104 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
... he had no care to rise by con- tending with himself ; but , while there was no name above his own , was willing to enjoy fame on the easiest terms . He was no lover of labour . What he thought 104 LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
Pagina 340
... labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never di- verted . If conversation offered anything that could be improved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an expression more happy than ...
... labour , and to mend them was his last . From his attention to poetry he was never di- verted . If conversation offered anything that could be improved , he committed it to paper ; if a thought , or perhaps an expression more happy than ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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