The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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Pagina 49
... reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob ...
... reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excellence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob ...
Pagina 56
... reputation in his pro- fession was such , that he grew rich , and retired to an estate . He had probably more than common literature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the ...
... reputation in his pro- fession was such , that he grew rich , and retired to an estate . He had probably more than common literature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the ...
Pagina 89
... reputation of this poem have been always mentioned as evidences of neglected merit , and of the uncertainty of literary fame ; and inquiries have been made , and conjectures offered , about the causes of its long obscurity and late ...
... reputation of this poem have been always mentioned as evidences of neglected merit , and of the uncertainty of literary fame ; and inquiries have been made , and conjectures offered , about the causes of its long obscurity and late ...
Pagina 90
... reputation and price of the copy still advanced , till the Revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and " Paradise Lost " broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture ...
... reputation and price of the copy still advanced , till the Revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and " Paradise Lost " broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture ...
Pagina 93
... reputation of having been in his youth eminently beautiful , so as to have been called the Lady of his college . His hair , which was of a light brown , parted at the fore - top , and hung down upon his shoulders , according to the 1 ...
... reputation of having been in his youth eminently beautiful , so as to have been called the Lady of his college . His hair , which was of a light brown , parted at the fore - top , and hung down upon his shoulders , according to the 1 ...
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