The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 20
... believe , more places than one are still shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his " Old Bachelor . Neither the time nor place of his birth is certainly known ; if the inscription upon his monument be true ...
... believe , more places than one are still shewn , in groves and gardens , where he is related to have written his " Old Bachelor . Neither the time nor place of his birth is certainly known ; if the inscription upon his monument be true ...
Pagina 24
... believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable ...
... believe with no other motive than religious zeal and honest indigna- tion . He was formed for a controvertist ; with sufficient learning ; with diction vehement and pointed , though often vulgar and incorrect ; with unconquerable ...
Pagina 32
... believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches and ...
... believe it is peculiar to him , that his first public work was an heroic poem . He was not known as a maker of verses till he published ( in 1695 ) " Prince Arthur , " in ten books , written , as he relates , " by such catches and ...
Pagina 50
... believe rather a Complication first of Gross Humours , as he was naturally corpulent , not dis- charging themselves , as he used no sort of Exercise . No man better bore ye approaches of his Dissolution ( as I am told ) or with less ...
... believe rather a Complication first of Gross Humours , as he was naturally corpulent , not dis- charging themselves , as he used no sort of Exercise . No man better bore ye approaches of his Dissolution ( as I am told ) or with less ...
Pagina 63
... believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , Sir , " Your most dutiful son , " And most obedient servant , " GEO . GRANVILLE . " Through the whole reign of King William he is supposed to have lived in literary retirement ...
... believe me always , with the utmost duty and submission , Sir , " Your most dutiful son , " And most obedient servant , " GEO . GRANVILLE . " Through the whole reign of King William he is supposed to have lived in literary retirement ...
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