The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pagina's |
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Pagina 12
... says the ambassador , " mais il chante si haut , que je ne scaurois vous entendre . " In a gay French company , where every one sang a little song or stanza , of which the burden was , " Bannissons la Melancholie : " when it came to his ...
... says the ambassador , " mais il chante si haut , que je ne scaurois vous entendre . " In a gay French company , where every one sang a little song or stanza , of which the burden was , " Bannissons la Melancholie : " when it came to his ...
Pagina 20
... says his ad- mirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him ...
... says his ad- mirer , to maintain what , when he said it , was so well received . Wherever Congreve was born , he was educated first at Kilkenny , and afterwards at Dublin , his father having some military employment that stationed him ...
Pagina 21
... says , in his defence against Collier , " that comedy was written , as several know , some years before it was acted . When I wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it to amuse myself in a slow recovery from a fit of ...
... says , in his defence against Collier , " that comedy was written , as several know , some years before it was acted . When I wrote it , I had little thoughts of the stage ; but did it to amuse myself in a slow recovery from a fit of ...
Pagina 31
... says , of Dr. Sydenham , what authors he should read , and was directed by Sydenham to " Don Quixote ; " " which , " said he , " is a very good book ; I read it still . " The per- verseness of mankind makes it often mischievous in men ...
... says , of Dr. Sydenham , what authors he should read , and was directed by Sydenham to " Don Quixote ; " " which , " said he , " is a very good book ; I read it still . " The per- verseness of mankind makes it often mischievous in men ...
Pagina 32
... says , " but little poetry throughout his whole life ; and for fifteen years before had not written a hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a ...
... says , " but little poetry throughout his whole life ; and for fifteen years before had not written a hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses in praise of a friend's book . " He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a ...
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