The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be still the author , and still in danger of deceiving himself : and if he consults his friends , he will probably find men who have more kindness than ...
... desire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be still the author , and still in danger of deceiving himself : and if he consults his friends , he will probably find men who have more kindness than ...
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Samuel Johnson. have more kindness than judgment , or more fear to offend than desire to instruct . The tediousness of this poem proceeds not from the uniformity of the subject , for it is sufficiently diversified , but from the ...
Samuel Johnson. have more kindness than judgment , or more fear to offend than desire to instruct . The tediousness of this poem proceeds not from the uniformity of the subject , for it is sufficiently diversified , but from the ...
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... desire at this important juncture to venture my life , in some manner or other , for my King and my country . " I cannot bear living under the reproach of ly- ing obscure and idle in a country retirement , when every man , who has the ...
... desire at this important juncture to venture my life , in some manner or other , for my King and my country . " I cannot bear living under the reproach of ly- ing obscure and idle in a country retirement , when every man , who has the ...
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... beg that I would not desire him to look over my first book , because , if he did , it would have the air of double- dealing . ' I assured him that I did not at all take di Lich it ill of Mr. Tickell that he was going to TICKELL . 93.
... beg that I would not desire him to look over my first book , because , if he did , it would have the air of double- dealing . ' I assured him that I did not at all take di Lich it ill of Mr. Tickell that he was going to TICKELL . 93.
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... desire him to look over my first book of the Iliad , ' because he had look- ed over Mr. Tickell's ; but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on the second , which I had then finished , and which Mr. Tickell had not touched ...
... desire him to look over my first book of the Iliad , ' because he had look- ed over Mr. Tickell's ; but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on the second , which I had then finished , and which Mr. Tickell had not touched ...
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