Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 |
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Pagina 103
... pounds , and a promise of one hundred and fifty more ; but it was the fate of this unhappy man , that few promises of any advantage to him were per- formed . His mother was infected among others with the general madness of the South Sea ...
... pounds , and a promise of one hundred and fifty more ; but it was the fate of this unhappy man , that few promises of any advantage to him were per- formed . His mother was infected among others with the general madness of the South Sea ...
Pagina 302
... pounds , that he might open a shop ; and of the subscrip- tion of forty pounds a year that he raised for Savage , twenty were paid by himself . He was accused of loving money , but his love was eagerness to gain , not solicitude to keep ...
... pounds , that he might open a shop ; and of the subscrip- tion of forty pounds a year that he raised for Savage , twenty were paid by himself . He was accused of loving money , but his love was eagerness to gain , not solicitude to keep ...
Pagina 408
... pounds . A considerable sum had already been swallowed up in the South - Sea . For this loss he took the vengeance ... pounds ; and that , when one of his friends exclaimed , Two thousand pounds for a poem ! he said it was the best ...
... pounds . A considerable sum had already been swallowed up in the South - Sea . For this loss he took the vengeance ... pounds ; and that , when one of his friends exclaimed , Two thousand pounds for a poem ! he said it was the best ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke censure character Cibber considered contempt criticism death delight deserved diction diligence discovered Dryden Dunciad Earl Edward Young elegance endeavoured English poetry epitaph Essay excellence expected expence faults favour Fenton fortune friends friendship genius honour Iliad imagination judgement kind King known labour Lady learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Halifax Lyttelton mentioned mind nature never Night Thoughts numbers occasion once opinion Orrery passion performance perhaps Pindar pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise printed publick published Queen reader reason received reputation resentment satire Savage says seems shew shewn Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon stanza sufficient supposed Swift Tatler Thomson Tickell tion told tragedy translation Tyrconnel unkle verses virtue Whigs Winchester College write written wrote Young