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Pagina 157
Samuel Johnson. and would probably have been content with less if less had been offered him . This poem was addressed to the Lord Tyrconnel , not only in the first lines , but in a formal Dedica- tion filled with the highest strains of ...
Samuel Johnson. and would probably have been content with less if less had been offered him . This poem was addressed to the Lord Tyrconnel , not only in the first lines , but in a formal Dedica- tion filled with the highest strains of ...
Pagina 166
... less melancholy , was less affecting because it was no longer new ; it there- fore procured him no new friends , and those that had formerly relieved him thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise con- sidered by ...
... less melancholy , was less affecting because it was no longer new ; it there- fore procured him no new friends , and those that had formerly relieved him thought they might now consign him to others . He was now likewise con- sidered by ...
Pagina 288
... less easily excused . Pope , in one of his letters , complaining of the treatment which his poem had found , " owns that such critics can intimidate him , nay , almost per- suade him to write no more , which is a compliment this age ...
... less easily excused . Pope , in one of his letters , complaining of the treatment which his poem had found , " owns that such critics can intimidate him , nay , almost per- suade him to write no more , which is a compliment this age ...
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The Satirical Letters of St Jerome | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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