Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 |
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Pagina 282
... tion of the seeming injury . Lintot , I believe , did nothing ; and Curll did what was expected . That to make them publick was the only purpose may be reasonably supposed , because the numbers offered to sale by the private messengers ...
... tion of the seeming injury . Lintot , I believe , did nothing ; and Curll did what was expected . That to make them publick was the only purpose may be reasonably supposed , because the numbers offered to sale by the private messengers ...
Pagina 314
... tion and ambition : to know whether he disentangled himself from these perverters of epistolary integrity , his book and his life must be set in comparison . One of his favourite topicks is contempt of his own poetry . For this , if it ...
... tion and ambition : to know whether he disentangled himself from these perverters of epistolary integrity , his book and his life must be set in comparison . One of his favourite topicks is contempt of his own poetry . For this , if it ...
Pagina 479
... tion in delicacy , or rather effeminacy , and a visible fastidiousness , or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science . He also had , in some degree , that weak- ness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Con- greve though he ...
... tion in delicacy , or rather effeminacy , and a visible fastidiousness , or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science . He also had , in some degree , that weak- ness which disgusted Voltaire so much in Mr. Con- greve though he ...
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