Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope |
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Page 12
... easily supposed they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears ...
... easily supposed they were soon released . The negotiation was begun at Prior's house , where the queen's ministers met Mesnager ( September 20 , 1711 ) , and entered privately upon the great business . The importance of Prior appears ...
Page 23
... easily written on any subject . In his epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the queen the pedant has found his way with Minerva , Perseus , and Andromeda . His epigrams and lighter ...
... easily written on any subject . In his epilogues to Phædra and to Lucius he is very happily facetious ; but in the prologue before the queen the pedant has found his way with Minerva , Perseus , and Andromeda . His epigrams and lighter ...
Page 45
... easily furnished . " I am not free of the Poets ' Company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission poem , but a downright interloper . Those gentlemen , who carry on their poetical trade ...
... easily furnished . " I am not free of the Poets ' Company , having never kissed the governor's hands : mine is therefore not so much as a permission poem , but a downright interloper . Those gentlemen , who carry on their poetical trade ...
Page 46
... easily make a false estimate of his own importance . Those whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others , are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the Succession or not , he at least approved ...
... easily make a false estimate of his own importance . Those whom their virtue restrains from deceiving others , are often disposed by their vanity to deceive themselves . Whether he promoted the Succession or not , he at least approved ...
Page 65
... easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windsor Forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources of knowledge , by making himself acquainted with modern languages , and removed for a time to ...
... easily conceived to have been attainable by a boy of fourteen in Windsor Forest . Next year he was desirous of opening to himself new sources of knowledge , by making himself acquainted with modern languages , and removed for a time to ...
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