Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... favour by false positions of preparatory criticism , and with poisoning the town by contradicting in the Spectator the established rule of poetical justice , because his own hero , with all his virtues , was to fall before a tyrant ...
... favour by false positions of preparatory criticism , and with poisoning the town by contradicting in the Spectator the established rule of poetical justice , because his own hero , with all his virtues , was to fall before a tyrant ...
Page 67
... favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character , promoted his interest with the utmost zeal , related his misfortunes , applauded his merit , took all the opportunities of recommending him , and asserted that ...
... favour with all the ardour of benevolence which constituted his character , promoted his interest with the utmost zeal , related his misfortunes , applauded his merit , took all the opportunities of recommending him , and asserted that ...
Page 69
... favours . He proposed to have established him in some settled scheme of life , and to have contracted a kind of alliance with him , by marrying him to a natural daughter , on whom he intended to bestow a thousand pounds . But though he ...
... favours . He proposed to have established him in some settled scheme of life , and to have contracted a kind of alliance with him , by marrying him to a natural daughter , on whom he intended to bestow a thousand pounds . But though he ...
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... favoured him ; but of which , though his virtue would not endeavour to palliate them , his gratitude would not suffer him to prolong the memory or diffuse the censure . He had In his " Wanderer " he has indeed taken an opportunity of ...
... favoured him ; but of which , though his virtue would not endeavour to palliate them , his gratitude would not suffer him to prolong the memory or diffuse the censure . He had In his " Wanderer " he has indeed taken an opportunity of ...
Page 84
... favour , that he was enabled , by frequent presents , not only to support himself , but to assist Mr. Gregory in ... favoured him ; and Page himself afterwards confessed that he had treated him with uncommon rigour . When all these ...
... favour , that he was enabled , by frequent presents , not only to support himself , but to assist Mr. Gregory in ... favoured him ; and Page himself afterwards confessed that he had treated him with uncommon rigour . When all these ...
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