Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page 101
... reputation and price of the copy still advanced , till the Revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with ...
... reputation and price of the copy still advanced , till the Revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with ...
Page 187
... reputation ; for it was only by his reputation that he could be known , as a writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that ...
... reputation ; for it was only by his reputation that he could be known , as a writer , to a man who , though he lived a great part of a long life upon an English pension , never condescended to understand the language of the nation that ...
Page 451
... reputation was now so far advanced , that the publick began to pay reverence to his name ; and he was solicited to prefix a preface to the translation of Boccalini , a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who ...
... reputation was now so far advanced , that the publick began to pay reverence to his name ; and he was solicited to prefix a preface to the translation of Boccalini , a writer whose satirical vein cost him his life in Italy ; but who ...
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