Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 |
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Pagina 217
... wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , be- cause the authors yet lay no claim to publick honours . and are therefore not considered as rivals by the dis- STEPNEY . 217.
... wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , be- cause the authors yet lay no claim to publick honours . and are therefore not considered as rivals by the dis- STEPNEY . 217.
Pagina 234
... wrote to Pope ; and 1711 , when Pope praised him in his Essay . The epitaph makes him forty - six years old : if Wood's account be right , he died in 1709 . " He is known more by his familiarity with greater men , than by anything done ...
... wrote to Pope ; and 1711 , when Pope praised him in his Essay . The epitaph makes him forty - six years old : if Wood's account be right , he died in 1709 . " He is known more by his familiarity with greater men , than by anything done ...
Pagina 369
... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight ...
... wrote Mully of Mountown , a poem ; by which , though fanciful readers in the pride of sagacity have given it a political interpretation , was meant originally no more than it expressed , as it was dictated only by the author's delight ...
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