Lives of the English PoetsCaasel et Cie, 1892 |
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Page 12
... returned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a mean- ness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he had been reduced , he found his old patrons out of power , and was therefore , for a time , at full leisure for the ...
... returned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a mean- ness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he had been reduced , he found his old patrons out of power , and was therefore , for a time , at full leisure for the ...
Page 28
... returned to his vocation , and began to plan literary occupations for his future life . He purposed a tragedy on the death of Socrates : a story of which , as Tickell remarks , the basis is narrow , and to which I know not how love ...
... returned to his vocation , and began to plan literary occupations for his future life . He purposed a tragedy on the death of Socrates : a story of which , as Tickell remarks , the basis is narrow , and to which I know not how love ...
Page 68
... returned home , having retired that day only to avoid his creditors , and composed the pamphlet only to discharge his reckoning . Mr. Savage related another fact equally uncommon , which , though it has no relation to his life , ought ...
... returned home , having retired that day only to avoid his creditors , and composed the pamphlet only to discharge his reckoning . Mr. Savage related another fact equally uncommon , which , though it has no relation to his life , ought ...
Page 75
... returned , he encouraged a subscription to a Miscellany of Poems in a very extra- ordinary manner , by publishing his story in the Plain Dealer , with some affecting lines , which he asserts to have been written by Mr. Savage upon the ...
... returned , he encouraged a subscription to a Miscellany of Poems in a very extra- ordinary manner , by publishing his story in the Plain Dealer , with some affecting lines , which he asserts to have been written by Mr. Savage upon the ...
Page 101
... returned the contempt which they had suffered ; and they who had received favours from him , I for of such favours as he could bestow he was very liberal , did not always remember them . So much more certain are the effects of ...
... returned the contempt which they had suffered ; and they who had received favours from him , I for of such favours as he could bestow he was very liberal , did not always remember them . So much more certain are the effects of ...
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acquaintance Addison afterwards allowed appeared calamities Cassell's Cato censure character Cheap Edition conduct considered contempt conversation death declared Delany discovered distress E. W. HORNUNG elegance endeavoured expected favour fortune friends friendship genius honour Illustrated imagined Ireland Juba justly kindness King letter likewise lived lodging London Lord Tyrconnel mankind manner MAX PEMBERTON mentioned merit mind misery misfortunes mother nature neglect never obliged observed occasion once opinion Orrery pamphlet panegyric 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 SAMUEL JOHNSON 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