Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 417
... Young was certainly not ashamed to be patronized by the in- famous Wharton . But Wharton befriended in Young , perhaps , the poet , and particularly the tragedian . If virtuous authors must be patronized only by virtuous peers , who ...
... Young was certainly not ashamed to be patronized by the in- famous Wharton . But Wharton befriended in Young , perhaps , the poet , and particularly the tragedian . If virtuous authors must be patronized only by virtuous peers , who ...
Pagina 419
... Young . “ I think , " says he , " the following pieces in four volumes to be the most excuseable of all that I have ... Young had the honour of prefixing to it a recommendatory copy of verses . This is one of the pieces which the author ...
... Young . “ I think , " says he , " the following pieces in four volumes to be the most excuseable of all that I have ... Young had the honour of prefixing to it a recommendatory copy of verses . This is one of the pieces which the author ...
Pagina 441
... Young , it is not easy to discover . If the son of the author of the Night Thoughts was indeed forbidden his college for a time , at one of our Universities , the author of Paradise Lost is by some supposed to have been dis- gracefully ...
... Young , it is not easy to discover . If the son of the author of the Night Thoughts was indeed forbidden his college for a time , at one of our Universities , the author of Paradise Lost is by some supposed to have been dis- gracefully ...
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