Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... pounds of his friend probably without much purpose of repayment ; but Addison , who seems to have had other notions of a hun- dred pounds , grew impatient of delay , and reclaimed his loan by an execution . Steele felt with great ...
... pounds of his friend probably without much purpose of repayment ; but Addison , who seems to have had other notions of a hun- dred pounds , grew impatient of delay , and reclaimed his loan by an execution . Steele felt with great ...
Page 11
... pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to learn the French language ; and then proceeded in his journey to Italy , which he surveyed with the eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at ...
... pounds a year , that he might be enabled to travel . He stayed a year at Blois , probably to learn the French language ; and then proceeded in his journey to Italy , which he surveyed with the eyes of a poet . While he was travelling at ...
Page 13
... pounds a year . The office was little more than nominal , and the salary was augmented for his accommodation . Interest and faction allow little to the operation of particular dispositions or private opinions . Two men of personal ...
... pounds a year . The office was little more than nominal , and the salary was augmented for his accommodation . Interest and faction allow little to the operation of particular dispositions or private opinions . Two men of personal ...
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... pounds a week , and therefore stated at one - and - twenty pounds , or three pounds ten shillings a day this , at a halfpenny a paper , will give sixteen hundred and eighty for the daily number . This sale is not great ; yet this , if ...
... pounds a week , and therefore stated at one - and - twenty pounds , or three pounds ten shillings a day this , at a halfpenny a paper , will give sixteen hundred and eighty for the daily number . This sale is not great ; yet this , if ...
Page 27
... his own inability , was forced to solicit his dismission , with a pension of fifteen hundred pounds a year . His friends palliated this relinquishment , of which both friends and enemies knew the true reason ADDISON . 27.
... his own inability , was forced to solicit his dismission , with a pension of fifteen hundred pounds a year . His friends palliated this relinquishment , of which both friends and enemies knew the true reason ADDISON . 27.
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