Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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... written for Cave . Soon after its pub- lication , we are told , Mr. Harte dined with Cave , and incidentally praised it . Meeting him again soon after- wards Cave said to Mr. Harte , " You made a man very happy t'other day . " " How ...
... written for Cave . Soon after its pub- lication , we are told , Mr. Harte dined with Cave , and incidentally praised it . Meeting him again soon after- wards Cave said to Mr. Harte , " You made a man very happy t'other day . " " How ...
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... written better than Savage . ' But Johnson , who made large allowance for temptations pressing on the poor , himself suffered and overcame the hardest trials , firm always to his duty , true servant of God and friend of man . Richard ...
... written better than Savage . ' But Johnson , who made large allowance for temptations pressing on the poor , himself suffered and overcame the hardest trials , firm always to his duty , true servant of God and friend of man . Richard ...
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... written in his own language : - " The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes , " " The Barometer , " and " A Bowling - green . " When the matter is low or scanty , a dead ' language , in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar ...
... written in his own language : - " The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes , " " The Barometer , " and " A Bowling - green . " When the matter is low or scanty , a dead ' language , in which nothing is mean because nothing is familiar ...
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... written at home . His elegance of language , and variegation of prose and verse , however , gain upon the reader ; and the book , though awhile neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the public that before it was reprinted ...
... written at home . His elegance of language , and variegation of prose and verse , however , gain upon the reader ; and the book , though awhile neglected , became in time so much the favourite of the public that before it was reprinted ...
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... the papers were collected into volumes . To the Tatler , in about two months , succeeded the Spectator . a series of essays of the same kind , but written ยท with less levity , upon a more regular plan 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
... the papers were collected into volumes . To the Tatler , in about two months , succeeded the Spectator . a series of essays of the same kind , but written ยท with less levity , upon a more regular plan 14 LIVES OF THE POETS .
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