Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 225
... wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , because the authors yet lay no claim to publick honours , and are therefore not considered as rivals by the distributors of fame . VOL . I ...
... wrote very early as well as he ever wrote ; and the performances of youth have many favourers , because the authors yet lay no claim to publick honours , and are therefore not considered as rivals by the distributors of fame . VOL . I ...
Pagina 242
... 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 or ...
... 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 or ...
Pagina 319
... wrote this poem , seems not yet fully to have formed his versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me ...
... wrote this poem , seems not yet fully to have formed his versification , or settled his system of propriety . From this time , he addicted himself almost wholly to the stage , to which , says he , my genius never much inclined me ...
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