Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 102
... success is not without a cloud . No sooner was Cato offered to the reader than it was attacked by the acute malignity of Dennis ' , with all the violence of angry criticism . Dennis , though equally zealous , and probably by his temper ...
... success is not without a cloud . No sooner was Cato offered to the reader than it was attacked by the acute malignity of Dennis ' , with all the violence of angry criticism . Dennis , though equally zealous , and probably by his temper ...
Page 162
... success was very earnestly promoted by Steele , who , when the ' Eng . Poets , xxxi . 285 . 2 Ante , RowE , 22 , 35. See Cun- ningham's Lives of the Poets , ii . 185 n . 3 The authority is John Duncombe . Hughes Corres . Preface , p ...
... success was very earnestly promoted by Steele , who , when the ' Eng . Poets , xxxi . 285 . 2 Ante , RowE , 22 , 35. See Cun- ningham's Lives of the Poets , ii . 185 n . 3 The authority is John Duncombe . Hughes Corres . Preface , p ...
Page 224
... success , though it deserves much better . ' Works , xviii . 177. According to Dennis ' it was hissed by barbarous fools in the acting . ' Mr. Pope's Homer , p . 7 . Downes says that being too keen a satire it had not the success the ...
... success , though it deserves much better . ' Works , xviii . 177. According to Dennis ' it was hissed by barbarous fools in the acting . ' Mr. Pope's Homer , p . 7 . Downes says that being too keen a satire it had not the success the ...
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