Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... 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 sensibility 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... 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 sensibility 8 LIVES OF THE POETS .
Page 9
... seem to have had much of his fondness , for he collected a second volume of the " Musę Anglicanę , " perhaps for a convenient receptacle , in which all his Latin pieces are inserted , and where his poem on the Peace has the first place ...
... seem to have had much of his fondness , for he collected a second volume of the " Musę Anglicanę , " perhaps for a convenient receptacle , in which all his Latin pieces are inserted , and where his poem on the Peace has the first place ...
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... seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design . To Sir Roger ( who , as a country gentleman , appears to be a Tory , or , as it is gently expressed , an adherent to the landed interest ) is opposed Sir Andrew Freeport , a ...
... seems to have been deterred from prosecuting his own design . To Sir Roger ( who , as a country gentleman , appears to be a Tory , or , as it is gently expressed , an adherent to the landed interest ) is opposed Sir Andrew Freeport , a ...
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Samuel Johnson. little , and that little seems not to have pleased Addison , who , when he dismissed him from the club , changed his ▾ opinions . Steele had made him , in the true spirit of unfeeling ... seems not to have pleased ...
Samuel Johnson. little , and that little seems not to have pleased Addison , who , when he dismissed him from the club , changed his ▾ opinions . Steele had made him , in the true spirit of unfeeling ... seems not to have pleased ...
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... seems to have increased his disposition to seri- ousness : the proportion of his religious to his comic papers is greater than in the former series . The Spectator , from its re - commencement , was pub- lished only three times a week ...
... seems to have increased his disposition to seri- ousness : the proportion of his religious to his comic papers is greater than in the former series . The Spectator , from its re - commencement , was pub- lished only three times a week ...
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