Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 12
... returned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a mean- ness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he had been reduced , he found his old patrons out of power , and was therefore , for a time , at full leisure for the ...
... returned to England ( in 1702 ) , with a mean- ness of appearance which gave testimony of the difficulties to which he had been reduced , he found his old patrons out of power , and was therefore , for a time , at full leisure for the ...
Page 28
... returned to his vocation , and began to plan literary occupations for his future life . He purposed a tragedy on the death of Socrates : a story of which , as Tickell remarks , the basis is narrow , and to which I know not how love ...
... returned to his vocation , and began to plan literary occupations for his future life . He purposed a tragedy on the death of Socrates : a story of which , as Tickell remarks , the basis is narrow , and to which I know not how love ...
Page 68
... returned home , having retired that day only to avoid his creditors , and composed the pamphlet only to discharge his reckoning . Mr. Savage related another fact equally uncommon , which , though it has no relation to his life , ought ...
... returned home , having retired that day only to avoid his creditors , and composed the pamphlet only to discharge his reckoning . Mr. Savage related another fact equally uncommon , which , though it has no relation to his life , ought ...
Page 75
... returned , he encouraged a subscription to a Miscellany of Poems in a very extra- ordinary manner , by publishing his story in the Plain Dealer , with some affecting lines , which he asserts to have been written by Mr. Savage upon the ...
... returned , he encouraged a subscription to a Miscellany of Poems in a very extra- ordinary manner , by publishing his story in the Plain Dealer , with some affecting lines , which he asserts to have been written by Mr. Savage upon the ...
Page 101
... returned the contempt which they had suffered ; and they who had received favours from him , for of such favours as he could bestow he was very liberal , did not always remember them . So much more certain are the effects of resentment ...
... returned the contempt which they had suffered ; and they who had received favours from him , for of such favours as he could bestow he was very liberal , did not always remember them . So much more certain are the effects of resentment ...
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