Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 18
... promise of forbearing Sir Roger for the time to come . The reason which induced Cervantes to bring his hero to the grave , para mi sola nacio Don Quixote , y yo para el , made Addison declare , with undue vehemence of expression , that ...
... promise of forbearing Sir Roger for the time to come . The reason which induced Cervantes to bring his hero to the grave , para mi sola nacio Don Quixote , y yo para el , made Addison declare , with undue vehemence of expression , that ...
Page 36
... promises of authors are like the vows of lovers . Steele thought no more on his design , or thought on it with anxiety that at last dis- gusted him , and left his friend in the hands of Tickell . information . One slight lineament of ...
... promises of authors are like the vows of lovers . Steele thought no more on his design , or thought on it with anxiety that at last dis- gusted him , and left his friend in the hands of Tickell . information . One slight lineament of ...
Page 68
... stayed . His friends were diverted with the expedient , and by paying the debt , discharged their attendance , having obliged Sir Richard to promise that " they should never again find him graced with a retinue 68 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... stayed . His friends were diverted with the expedient , and by paying the debt , discharged their attendance , having obliged Sir Richard to promise that " they should never again find him graced with a retinue 68 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Page 69
... promises , or execute his own intentions ; and , as he was never able to raise the sum which he had offered , the marriage was delayed . In the meantime he was officiously informed that Mr. Savage had ridiculed him ; by which he was so ...
... promises , or execute his own intentions ; and , as he was never able to raise the sum which he had offered , the marriage was delayed . In the meantime he was officiously informed that Mr. Savage had ridiculed him ; by which he was so ...
Page 70
... promise of one hundred and fifty more ; but it was the fate of this unhappy man that few promises of any advantage to him were performed . His mother was infected , among others , with the general madness of the South Sea traffic ; and ...
... promise of one hundred and fifty more ; but it was the fate of this unhappy man that few promises of any advantage to him were performed . His mother was infected , among others , with the general madness of the South Sea traffic ; and ...
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