Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... published this piece of biography when his age was thirty - five ; his other lives of poets appeared when that age was about doubled . He was very poor when the Life of Savage was written for Cave . Soon after its pub- lication , we are ...
... published this piece of biography when his age was thirty - five ; his other lives of poets appeared when that age was about doubled . He was very poor when the Life of Savage was written for Cave . Soon after its pub- lication , we are ...
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... published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgic upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , " my latter swarm is scarcely worth the hiving . " About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to the several books of ...
... published a translation of the greater part of the Fourth Georgic upon Bees ; after which , says Dryden , " my latter swarm is scarcely worth the hiving . " About the same time he composed the arguments prefixed to the several books of ...
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... published his Travels , with a dedica- tion to Lord Somers . As his stay in foreign countries was short , his observations are such as might be supplied by a hasty view , and consist chiefly in comparisons of the present face of the ...
... published his Travels , with a dedica- tion to Lord Somers . As his stay in foreign countries was short , his observations are such as might be supplied by a hasty view , and consist chiefly in comparisons of the present face of the ...
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... published it with an inscription to the Duchess of Marlborough - a woman without skill , or pretensions to skill , in poetry or literature . His dedication was therefore an instance of servile absurdity , to be exceeded only by Joshua ...
... published it with an inscription to the Duchess of Marlborough - a woman without skill , or pretensions to skill , in poetry or literature . His dedication was therefore an instance of servile absurdity , to be exceeded only by Joshua ...
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Samuel Johnson. ยท with less levity , upon a more regular plan , and published daily . Such an undertaking showed the writers not to distrust their own copiousness of materials or facility of composition , and their performance justified ...
Samuel Johnson. ยท with less levity , upon a more regular plan , and published daily . Such an undertaking showed the writers not to distrust their own copiousness of materials or facility of composition , and their performance justified ...
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