Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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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- dred ...
... 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- dred ...
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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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... friend . The tumult of those unhappy days left scarcely any man leisure to treasure up occasional compositions ; and so much were they neglected that a complete collection is nowhere to be found . These Mercuries were succeeded by L ...
... friend . The tumult of those unhappy days left scarcely any man leisure to treasure up occasional compositions ; and so much were they neglected that a complete collection is nowhere to be found . These Mercuries were succeeded by L ...
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