Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 |
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Pagina 23
... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of convenience or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues ...
Pagina 231
... told by Pope , in the notes to the Dunciad . It is evident , that , according to Pope's own estimate , Broome was unkindly treated . If four books could merit three hundred pounds , eight and all the notes , equivalent at least to four ...
... told by Pope , in the notes to the Dunciad . It is evident , that , according to Pope's own estimate , Broome was unkindly treated . If four books could merit three hundred pounds , eight and all the notes , equivalent at least to four ...
Pagina 233
... told by Pope ; who is more willing , as I have heard observed , to shew what his father was not , than what he was . It is allowed that he grew rich by trade ; but whether in a shop or on the Exchange was never discovered , till Mr ...
... told by Pope ; who is more willing , as I have heard observed , to shew what his father was not , than what he was . It is allowed that he grew rich by trade ; but whether in a shop or on the Exchange was never discovered , till Mr ...
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