Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1964 - English poetry |
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Page 63
... fortune of its author ; and finding nothing done , sunk into dejection . His friends endeavoured to divert him . The earl of Burlington sent him ( 1716 ) into Devonshire ; the year after , Mr. Pulteney took him to Aix ; and in the ...
... fortune of its author ; and finding nothing done , sunk into dejection . His friends endeavoured to divert him . The earl of Burlington sent him ( 1716 ) into Devonshire ; the year after , Mr. Pulteney took him to Aix ; and in the ...
Page 73
... fortune . About this time he became enamoured of the countess of Newburgh , whom he has celebrated with so much ardour by the name of Mira . He wrote verses to her before he was three and twenty , and may be forgiven if he regarded the ...
... fortune . About this time he became enamoured of the countess of Newburgh , whom he has celebrated with so much ardour by the name of Mira . He wrote verses to her before he was three and twenty , and may be forgiven if he regarded the ...
Page 131
... fortune has a natural tendency to kindle pride , and that pride seldom fails to exert itself in contempt and insult ; and if this is often the effect of hereditary wealth , and of honours enjoyed only by the merit of others , it is some ...
... fortune has a natural tendency to kindle pride , and that pride seldom fails to exert itself in contempt and insult ; and if this is often the effect of hereditary wealth , and of honours enjoyed only by the merit of others , it is some ...
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