Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 220
... probably with an occult opposition to Addison , employed to deliver the acclamation of the Tories . It is said that he would willingly have declined the task , but that his friends urged it upon him . It appears that he wrote this poem ...
... probably with an occult opposition to Addison , employed to deliver the acclamation of the Tories . It is said that he would willingly have declined the task , but that his friends urged it upon him . It appears that he wrote this poem ...
Page 356
... probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his college was such as has been told ; but the indecency and licentiousness of his behaviour drew upon him ...
... probably admitted into the university in 1689 , when we may suppose him twenty years old . His reputation for literature in his college was such as has been told ; but the indecency and licentiousness of his behaviour drew upon him ...
Page 390
... probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature ...
... probably from that time suffered law gradually to give way to poetry . At twenty - five he produced The Ambitious Stepmother , which was received with so much favour , that he devoted himself from that time wholly to elegant literature ...
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