Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 21
... allowed to any drama before ; and the author , as Mrs. Porter long afterwards related , wandered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude . When it was printed , notice was given that the ...
... allowed to any drama before ; and the author , as Mrs. Porter long afterwards related , wandered through the whole exhibition behind the scenes with restless and unappeasable solicitude . When it was printed , notice was given that the ...
Page 58
... allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour , which , as Steele observes , is peculiar to himself , is so happily diffused as to give the grace of novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences . He never " o ...
... allowed to stand perhaps the first of the first rank . His humour , which , as Steele observes , is peculiar to himself , is so happily diffused as to give the grace of novelty to domestic scenes and daily occurrences . He never " o ...
Page 67
... allowed the unhappy author no part of the profit . Not discouraged , however , at his repulse , he wrote two years afterwards Love in a Veil , another comedy , borrowed likewise from the Spanish , but with little better success than ...
... allowed the unhappy author no part of the profit . Not discouraged , however , at his repulse , he wrote two years afterwards Love in a Veil , another comedy , borrowed likewise from the Spanish , but with little better success than ...
Page 70
... , who was so much pleased with his con- versation , and touched with his misfortunes , that she allowed him a settled pension of fifty pounds a year , which was during her life regularly paid . That this 70 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... , who was so much pleased with his con- versation , and touched with his misfortunes , that she allowed him a settled pension of fifty pounds a year , which was during her life regularly paid . That this 70 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Page 73
... allowed him ; there he used to walk and form his speeches , and after- wards step into a shop , beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink , and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accident . If ...
... allowed him ; there he used to walk and form his speeches , and after- wards step into a shop , beg for a few moments the use of the pen and ink , and write down what he had composed upon paper which he had picked up by accident . If ...
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