Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 11
... least , is the relation of Tickell . Perhaps he only collected his materials and formed his plan . Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to Lord Halifax which is justly considered as the most elegant ...
... least , is the relation of Tickell . Perhaps he only collected his materials and formed his plan . Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to Lord Halifax which is justly considered as the most elegant ...
Page 14
... least by his intervention some good was done , and some mis- chief prevented . When he was in office he made a law to himself , as Swift has recorded , never to remit his regular fees in civility to his friends : " for , " said he , " I ...
... least by his intervention some good was done , and some mis- chief prevented . When he was in office he made a law to himself , as Swift has recorded , never to remit his regular fees in civility to his friends : " for , " said he , " I ...
Page 47
... least some of his guards or domestics must necessarily be supposed to be within hearing ; is a thing that is so far from being pro- bable , that it is hardly possible . 66 Sempronius , in the second act , comes back once more in the ...
... least some of his guards or domestics must necessarily be supposed to be within hearing ; is a thing that is so far from being pro- bable , that it is hardly possible . 66 Sempronius , in the second act , comes back once more in the ...
Page 63
... least intimation that he had a claim to any other . Here he was initiated in literature , and passed through several of the classes , with what rapidity or with what applause cannot now be known . As he always spoke with respect of his ...
... least intimation that he had a claim to any other . Here he was initiated in literature , and passed through several of the classes , with what rapidity or with what applause cannot now be known . As he always spoke with respect of his ...
Page 64
... least to give such as should cut him off for ever from that happiness which competence affords , and therefore declared that he was dead ; which is perhaps the first instance of a lie invented by a mother to deprive her son of a ...
... least to give such as should cut him off for ever from that happiness which competence affords , and therefore declared that he was dead ; which is perhaps the first instance of a lie invented by a mother to deprive her son of a ...
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