“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pagina's |
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Pagina 51
... tell you he has done you many a good office , and set your cha- racter in ye fairest light to some who either mistook you , or knew you not . I doubt not he has done the same for me . Adieu : Let us love his memory , and profit by his ...
... tell you he has done you many a good office , and set your cha- racter in ye fairest light to some who either mistook you , or knew you not . I doubt not he has done the same for me . Adieu : Let us love his memory , and profit by his ...
Pagina 52
... telling it , is not known . The report is , that he was soon weary of either the restraint or servility of his occupation , and easily persuaded his master to discharge him . The Duchess of Monmouth , remarkable for inflexible per ...
... telling it , is not known . The report is , that he was soon weary of either the restraint or servility of his occupation , and easily persuaded his master to discharge him . The Duchess of Monmouth , remarkable for inflexible per ...
Pagina 78
... tell . The character of the Elegy is gentleness and tenuity ; but this stanza has been pronounced by Dryden , whose knowledge of English metre was not inconsiderable , to be the most magnificent of all the measures which our language ...
... tell . The character of the Elegy is gentleness and tenuity ; but this stanza has been pronounced by Dryden , whose knowledge of English metre was not inconsiderable , to be the most magnificent of all the measures which our language ...
Pagina 155
... tell me , that you understand not why secrecy is enjoined , and yet I intend to set my name to it . My answer is I have my private reasons , which I am not obliged to explain to any one . You doubt my friend Mr. Swould not approve of it ...
... tell me , that you understand not why secrecy is enjoined , and yet I intend to set my name to it . My answer is I have my private reasons , which I am not obliged to explain to any one . You doubt my friend Mr. Swould not approve of it ...
Pagina 178
... telling his intentions , and bade them take notice that their fellow - servant was no longer Robert the butler ; but that his integrity had made him Mr. Blakeney , verger of St. Patrick's ; an officer whose income was between thirty and ...
... telling his intentions , and bade them take notice that their fellow - servant was no longer Robert the butler ; but that his integrity had made him Mr. Blakeney , verger of St. Patrick's ; an officer whose income was between thirty and ...
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