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Pagina xi
... wrote a poem to prove Solomon was the author of the Iliad , and why ..... his pathetic letter descriptive of his literary calamities ...... hints at the vast number of his unpublished works ... Bayne , Alexander , died of in- tense ...
... wrote a poem to prove Solomon was the author of the Iliad , and why ..... his pathetic letter descriptive of his literary calamities ...... hints at the vast number of his unpublished works ... Bayne , Alexander , died of in- tense ...
Pagina xv
... wrote a laughable co- medy after his " Christian Hero . " 147 his ill choice in a wife of an un- congenial character .... ...... - specimens of his " Love des- patches , " n ... . . finely contrasts his own charac- ter with that of ...
... wrote a laughable co- medy after his " Christian Hero . " 147 his ill choice in a wife of an un- congenial character .... ...... - specimens of his " Love des- patches , " n ... . . finely contrasts his own charac- ter with that of ...
Pagina 5
... wrote about the year 1700 ; for he told all Europe that " he could find nothing amongst us but our writings to distinguish us from the worst of barbarians . " But to become an " Author by Profes- sion , " is to have no other means of ...
... wrote about the year 1700 ; for he told all Europe that " he could find nothing amongst us but our writings to distinguish us from the worst of barbarians . " But to become an " Author by Profes- sion , " is to have no other means of ...
Pagina 7
... wrote . These are mysteries of the craft of authorship ; in this sense it is only a trade , and a very bad one ! But when in his other capacity , this gentleman comes to hire himself to one lord as he had to another , no one can doubt ...
... wrote . These are mysteries of the craft of authorship ; in this sense it is only a trade , and a very bad one ! But when in his other capacity , this gentleman comes to hire himself to one lord as he had to another , no one can doubt ...
Pagina 8
... wrote for hire , but valued himself on it ; proud of the pliancy of his pen and of his principles , he wrote without re- morse what his patron was forced to pay for , but to disavow . It was from a knowledge of these " Authors by ...
... wrote for hire , but valued himself on it ; proud of the pliancy of his pen and of his principles , he wrote without re- morse what his patron was forced to pay for , but to disavow . It was from a knowledge of these " Authors by ...
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