The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 25
... once more brought into the house of Dagon , to make sport for the Philistines ! " 99 Congreve's last play was " The Way of the World ; which , though as he hints in his dedication it was written with great labour and much thought , was ...
... once more brought into the house of Dagon , to make sport for the Philistines ! " 99 Congreve's last play was " The Way of the World ; which , though as he hints in his dedication it was written with great labour and much thought , was ...
Pagina 31
... once a schoolmaster , is the only reproach which all the perspicacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he says , of Dr. Sydenham , what ...
... once a schoolmaster , is the only reproach which all the perspicacity of malice , animated by wit , has ever fixed upon his private life . When he first engaged in the study of physic , he inquired , as he says , of Dr. Sydenham , what ...
Pagina 40
... once generous and unjust , impious lovers of their country and flagitious heroes , good - natured sharpers , immoral men of honour , and libertines who will sooner die than change their religion ; and though it is true that re- pugnant ...
... once generous and unjust , impious lovers of their country and flagitious heroes , good - natured sharpers , immoral men of honour , and libertines who will sooner die than change their religion ; and though it is true that re- pugnant ...
Pagina 41
... once invidiously great , forsook him in the latter part of his life ; but being by nature , or by principle , averse from idleness , he employed his un- welcome leisure in writing books on physic , and teaching others to cure those whom ...
... once invidiously great , forsook him in the latter part of his life ; but being by nature , or by principle , averse from idleness , he employed his un- welcome leisure in writing books on physic , and teaching others to cure those whom ...
Pagina 48
... once with tenderness and integrity . He published likewise ( 1729 ) a very splendid edition of Waller , with notes , often useful , often entertaining , but too much extended by long quotations from Clarendon . Illustra- tions drawn ...
... once with tenderness and integrity . He published likewise ( 1729 ) a very splendid edition of Waller , with notes , often useful , often entertaining , but too much extended by long quotations from Clarendon . Illustra- tions drawn ...
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