Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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... Friends in Council The Autobiography of :: The Rivals , and The School for Scandal Warren Hastings The Angel in the House The Life of Nelson .. A Detence of Poesie Paradise Regained A Christmas Carol , and The Chimes Childe Harold Murad ...
... Friends in Council The Autobiography of :: The Rivals , and The School for Scandal Warren Hastings The Angel in the House The Life of Nelson .. A Detence of Poesie Paradise Regained A Christmas Carol , and The Chimes Childe Harold Murad ...
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... friend of man . Richard Savage's whole public life was built upon a lie . His base nature foiled any attempt made to befriend him ; and the friends he lost , he slandered ; Richard Steele among them . Samuel Johnson was a friend easy to ...
... friend of man . Richard Savage's whole public life was built upon a lie . His base nature foiled any attempt made to befriend him ; and the friends he lost , he slandered ; Richard Steele among them . Samuel Johnson was a friend easy to ...
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... friendship the greater praise must be given to Steele . It is not hard to love those from whom nothing can be feared ... friend probably without much purpose of repayment ; but Addison , who seems to have had other notions of a hun ...
... friendship the greater praise must be given to Steele . It is not hard to love those from whom nothing can be feared ... friend probably without much purpose of repayment ; but Addison , who seems to have had other notions of a hun ...
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... friendship ; but , on one side or the other , friendship was afterwards too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and discriminate character of Spenser , whose work he had then never read ; so little ...
... friendship ; but , on one side or the other , friendship was afterwards too weak for the malignity of faction . In this poem is a very confident and discriminate character of Spenser , whose work he had then never read ; so little ...
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... friends : " for , " said he , " I may have a hundred friends ; and if my fee be two guineas , I shall , by relinquishing my right , lose two hundred guineas , and no friend gain more than two ; there is therefore no proportion between ...
... friends : " for , " said he , " I may have a hundred friends ; and if my fee be two guineas , I shall , by relinquishing my right , lose two hundred guineas , and no friend gain more than two ; there is therefore no proportion between ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared calamities Cassell's Cato censure character Cheap Edition conduct considered contempt conversation criticism death declared Delany discovered distress E. W. HORNUNG elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius GUSTAVE DORÉ honour Illustrated imagined Ireland J. M. BARRIE Juba justly kindness King letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner MAX PEMBERTON mentioned mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet passion pension performance perhaps pleasure poem poet poetical Pope pounds praise promise published queen R. L. STEVENSON reader reason received regard resentment resolution retired Richard Savage ROBERT STAWELL BALL Savage Savage's says Sempronius sent sentiments Sir Richard Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes soon Spectator STANLEY WEYMAN Steele suffered sufficient supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tenderness thought Tickell tion told tragedy verses virtue Vols Whigs write wrote