Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page 142
... Tonson's rudeness to Dryden see post , DRYDEN , 187. Tonson being asked ' what poem he ever got the most by , immediately named Paradise Lost . ' Spence's Anec . p . 344 . ' The best portrait of Tonson ( that by Kneller ) represents him ...
... Tonson's rudeness to Dryden see post , DRYDEN , 187. Tonson being asked ' what poem he ever got the most by , immediately named Paradise Lost . ' Spence's Anec . p . 344 . ' The best portrait of Tonson ( that by Kneller ) represents him ...
Page 160
... Tonson , a man who is to be praised as often as he is named . Of this sum one hundred pounds was placed in the ... Tonson from about 1720 seems to have transferred his business to his nephew Jacob Tonson , ' who died in 1736 , four ...
... Tonson , a man who is to be praised as often as he is named . Of this sum one hundred pounds was placed in the ... Tonson from about 1720 seems to have transferred his business to his nephew Jacob Tonson , ' who died in 1736 , four ...
Page 198
... Tonson to print ' a new and elegant edition of Paradise Lost [ the fourth ] . ' There were above 500 subscribers . Atterbury , in 1687 , sent Tonson thirty - one names from Oxford . Dryden wrote for it his lines on Milton . Malone's ...
... Tonson to print ' a new and elegant edition of Paradise Lost [ the fourth ] . ' There were above 500 subscribers . Atterbury , in 1687 , sent Tonson thirty - one names from Oxford . Dryden wrote for it his lines on Milton . Malone's ...
Page 226
... Merely for safety after fame they thirst ; 8 ' George Steevens made the se- lection of Rochester's poems which appear in Dr. Johnson's edition . ' Jacob Tonson early in the century ' Poema Cl . V. JOANNIS PASSERATII , Regii in 226 ...
... Merely for safety after fame they thirst ; 8 ' George Steevens made the se- lection of Rochester's poems which appear in Dr. Johnson's edition . ' Jacob Tonson early in the century ' Poema Cl . V. JOANNIS PASSERATII , Regii in 226 ...
Page 236
... Tonson : - I am of your opinion that you should reprint it , and that you may safely venture on a thousand more . ' Ib . xviii . 105 . 2 One of Dryden's ' civilities ' is 6 outrageously ridiculous . He wrote of Roscommon : - How will ...
... Tonson : - I am of your opinion that you should reprint it , and that you may safely venture on a thousand more . ' Ib . xviii . 105 . 2 One of Dryden's ' civilities ' is 6 outrageously ridiculous . He wrote of Roscommon : - How will ...
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