The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 - 4 pagina's |
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Pagina 35
... success , thinking himself qualified to give more instruction , he again wrote a poem of " Advice to a Weaver of Tapestry . ' Steele was then publishing the " Tatler ; " and , looking around him for something at which he might laugh ...
... success , thinking himself qualified to give more instruction , he again wrote a poem of " Advice to a Weaver of Tapestry . ' Steele was then publishing the " Tatler ; " and , looking around him for something at which he might laugh ...
Pagina 47
... success of his " Iliad , " under- . took the " Odyssey , " being , as it seems , weary of translating , he determined to engage auxiliaries . Twelve books he took to himself , and twelve he distributed between Broome and Fenton : the ...
... success of his " Iliad , " under- . took the " Odyssey , " being , as it seems , weary of translating , he determined to engage auxiliaries . Twelve books he took to himself , and twelve he distributed between Broome and Fenton : the ...
Pagina 55
... success , that he raised a thousand pounds ; and called his friends to a consultation , what use might be best made of it . Lewis , the steward of Lord Oxford , advised him to intrust it to the funds , and live upon the interest ...
... success , that he raised a thousand pounds ; and called his friends to a consultation , what use might be best made of it . Lewis , the steward of Lord Oxford , advised him to intrust it to the funds , and live upon the interest ...
Pagina 56
... success of the " Beggar's Opera . " This play , written in ridicule of the musical Italian drama , was first offered to Cibber and his brethren at Drury Lane , and rejected ; it being then carried to Rich , had the effect , as was ...
... success of the " Beggar's Opera . " This play , written in ridicule of the musical Italian drama , was first offered to Cibber and his brethren at Drury Lane , and rejected ; it being then carried to Rich , had the effect , as was ...
Pagina 64
... success is from above . At the accession of Queen Anne , having his fortune im proved by bequests from his father , and his uncle the Earl of Bath , he was chosen into parliament for Fowey . He soon after engaged in a joint translation ...
... success is from above . At the accession of Queen Anne , having his fortune im proved by bequests from his father , and his uncle the Earl of Bath , he was chosen into parliament for Fowey . He soon after engaged in a joint translation ...
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