Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... appeared before the public Pope was still writing satires , and to differ in party politics from Pope was like riding a tilt at Launcelot - apt to be rough work . For rough work then he must be formed who was to succeed in England at a ...
... appeared before the public Pope was still writing satires , and to differ in party politics from Pope was like riding a tilt at Launcelot - apt to be rough work . For rough work then he must be formed who was to succeed in England at a ...
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... appeared to be actual reports . The substance was brought to him by persons who had attended the debates , and he composed the speeches for both sides . ' I saved appearances tolerably well , ' he said , when applauded for his ...
... appeared to be actual reports . The substance was brought to him by persons who had attended the debates , and he composed the speeches for both sides . ' I saved appearances tolerably well , ' he said , when applauded for his ...
Seite xvi
... appeared his other great poem , also an imitation of Juvenal , under the title , The Vanity of Human Wishes ; and we can again trace the deepening gloom of the author's mind by the tones in which he sings the ever - old ever- new strain ...
... appeared his other great poem , also an imitation of Juvenal , under the title , The Vanity of Human Wishes ; and we can again trace the deepening gloom of the author's mind by the tones in which he sings the ever - old ever- new strain ...
Seite xvii
... appeared twice a week from March 1750 to March 1752. From this date Johnson begins to enter upon brighter pecuniary prospects ; and the Rambler , which brought him four guineas a week , brought him also , what he probably valued far ...
... appeared twice a week from March 1750 to March 1752. From this date Johnson begins to enter upon brighter pecuniary prospects ; and the Rambler , which brought him four guineas a week , brought him also , what he probably valued far ...
Seite xxii
... appeared the second edition of his Lives of the Poets , with some few hasty and imperfect corrections , and this was his last work of any importance . In December 1784 he died . The one fear he had even to the last was of loss of reason ...
... appeared the second edition of his Lives of the Poets , with some few hasty and imperfect corrections , and this was his last work of any importance . In December 1784 he died . The one fear he had even to the last was of loss of reason ...
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