Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 13
... Ireland , Addison attended him as his secre- tary ; and was made Keeper of the Records , in Birming- ham's Tower , with a salary of three hundred pounds a year . The office was little more than nominal , and the salary was augmented for ...
... Ireland , Addison attended him as his secre- tary ; and was made Keeper of the Records , in Birming- ham's Tower , with a salary of three hundred pounds a year . The office was little more than nominal , and the salary was augmented for ...
Page 14
... Ireland when Steele , without any communication of his design , began the publication of the Tatler ; but he was not long con- cealed ; by inserting a remark on Virgil which Addison had given him he discovered himself . It is , indeed ...
... Ireland when Steele , without any communication of his design , began the publication of the Tatler ; but he was not long con- cealed ; by inserting a remark on Virgil which Addison had given him he discovered himself . It is , indeed ...
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... Ireland , he refused to intermit his acquaintance with Swift . Of his habits or external manners , nothing is so often mentioned as that timorous or sullen taciturnity , which his friends called modesty by too mild a name . Steele ...
... Ireland , he refused to intermit his acquaintance with Swift . Of his habits or external manners , nothing is so often mentioned as that timorous or sullen taciturnity , which his friends called modesty by too mild a name . Steele ...
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... Ireland ought to honour , once gave me his opinion . " If I had set , " said he , " ten school- boys to write on the battle of Blenheim , and eight had brought me the angel , I should not have been surprised . " The opera of Rosamond ...
... Ireland ought to honour , once gave me his opinion . " If I had set , " said he , " ten school- boys to write on the battle of Blenheim , and eight had brought me the angel , I should not have been surprised . " The opera of Rosamond ...
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... Ireland , had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift , by whom Jonathan had been to that time main- tained . Temple received with sufficient kindness the nephew of his father's friend , with whom he was , when they ...
... Ireland , had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift , by whom Jonathan had been to that time main- tained . Temple received with sufficient kindness the nephew of his father's friend , with whom he was , when they ...
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