Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... given in his conversation to his love of living as such , was due at least as much to his fearing men less , as to his fearing death more , than falls to the lot of or- dinary minds . Allowances of this kind must be made even whilst ...
... given in his conversation to his love of living as such , was due at least as much to his fearing men less , as to his fearing death more , than falls to the lot of or- dinary minds . Allowances of this kind must be made even whilst ...
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... given us , in more than one of his satires , pictures , drawn with only too cruel accuracy , of the lives of literary men . To go to bed supperless is bad enough ; but it is worse to be supperless and have no bed to go to , to wander ...
... given us , in more than one of his satires , pictures , drawn with only too cruel accuracy , of the lives of literary men . To go to bed supperless is bad enough ; but it is worse to be supperless and have no bed to go to , to wander ...
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... given below , one of the finest , if not the very finest , of the specimens of indignant epistolary com- position which our language contains : - ' February 7 , 1755 . ' MY LORD , I have been lately informed , by the proprietor of the ...
... given below , one of the finest , if not the very finest , of the specimens of indignant epistolary com- position which our language contains : - ' February 7 , 1755 . ' MY LORD , I have been lately informed , by the proprietor of the ...
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... given with any idea that he should ever ' dip his pen in faction ' ; it was an acknowledgment , as Lord Bute told him , not of anything he was to do , but of what he had done . Perhaps his lordship guessed that this would be the best ...
... given with any idea that he should ever ' dip his pen in faction ' ; it was an acknowledgment , as Lord Bute told him , not of anything he was to do , but of what he had done . Perhaps his lordship guessed that this would be the best ...
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... given , in various introductions to plays , and self - laudatory dedications , canons of criticism which had at least the merit of being sound as far as they went . But Dryden in his own day had few imi- tators , and what was then known ...
... given , in various introductions to plays , and self - laudatory dedications , canons of criticism which had at least the merit of being sound as far as they went . But Dryden in his own day had few imi- tators , and what was then known ...
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