Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1926 - English poetry |
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Page 80
... mean by a mean employment . This , how- ever , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his ...
... mean by a mean employment . This , how- ever , his warmest friends seem not to have found ; they therefore shift and palliate . He did not sell literature to all comers at an open shop ; he was a chamber - milliner , and measured his ...
Page 104
... means of proclaiming the publication of new books have been produced by that general literature which now per- vades ... mean time he continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives ...
... means of proclaiming the publication of new books have been produced by that general literature which now per- vades ... mean time he continued his studies , and supplied the want of sight by a very odd expedient , of which Philips gives ...
Page 352
... means to bring us to virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice ...
... means to bring us to virtue , but generally love to virtue and hatred to vice ; by shewing the rewards of one , and punishments of the other ; at least , by rendering virtue always amiable , tho ' it be shewn unfortunate ; and vice ...
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