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Pagina 14
... language towards the number . He would pay in the base coin which was then current ; which was a loss to the poet . Tonson once complained to Dryden , that he had only received 1446 lines of his translation of Ovid for his Miscellany ...
... language towards the number . He would pay in the base coin which was then current ; which was a loss to the poet . Tonson once complained to Dryden , that he had only received 1446 lines of his translation of Ovid for his Miscellany ...
Pagina 15
... language , besides what was more obviously valuable to some persons , the print and paper . On this slight principle was issued the profound award which accorded a certain term of years to any work , however immortal . They could not ...
... language , besides what was more obviously valuable to some persons , the print and paper . On this slight principle was issued the profound award which accorded a certain term of years to any work , however immortal . They could not ...
Pagina 16
... language in books . We became a reading people ; and then the demand for books naturally produced a new order of authors , who traded in literature . It was then , so early as in the Elizabethan age , that literary property may be said ...
... language in books . We became a reading people ; and then the demand for books naturally produced a new order of authors , who traded in literature . It was then , so early as in the Elizabethan age , that literary property may be said ...
Pagina 26
... languages and the sciences , while his faculties appear to have been disordered from the simplicity of his nature , and driven to madness by in- digence and insult . He formed the wild resolution of becoming a mendicant author ; the ...
... languages and the sciences , while his faculties appear to have been disordered from the simplicity of his nature , and driven to madness by in- digence and insult . He formed the wild resolution of becoming a mendicant author ; the ...
Pagina 27
Isaac Disraeli. modern languages . Quitting his native spot with political dis- gust , he changed his character in the metropolis , for he sub- scribes himself " Counsellor - at - Law . " In an evil hour he com- menced author , not only ...
Isaac Disraeli. modern languages . Quitting his native spot with political dis- gust , he changed his character in the metropolis , for he sub- scribes himself " Counsellor - at - Law . " In an evil hour he com- menced author , not only ...
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