The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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Page 11
... censured for retaining it , he said , he could live upon at last . Being however generally known and esteemed , he was encouraged to add other poems to those which he had printed , and to publish them by subscrip- tion . The expedient ...
... censured for retaining it , he said , he could live upon at last . Being however generally known and esteemed , he was encouraged to add other poems to those which he had printed , and to publish them by subscrip- tion . The expedient ...
Page 14
... censure ; for , when he forsook the whigs , under whose patronage he first entered the world , he became a tory so ardent and deter- minate , that he did not willingly consort with men of different opinions . He was one of the sixteen ...
... censure ; for , when he forsook the whigs , under whose patronage he first entered the world , he became a tory so ardent and deter- minate , that he did not willingly consort with men of different opinions . He was one of the sixteen ...
Page 15
... censure of a man who was con- fessedly the ornament of the stage . " I know all that , " says the ambassador , " mais il chante si haut , que je ne sçaurois vous entendre . " In a gay French company , where every one sang a little song ...
... censure of a man who was con- fessedly the ornament of the stage . " I know all that , " says the ambassador , " mais il chante si haut , que je ne sçaurois vous entendre . " In a gay French company , where every one sang a little song ...
Page 18
... censure it by caprice , without dan- ger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular , that it was translated into Latin by no common master . His ...
... censure it by caprice , without dan- ger of detection ; for who can be supposed to have laboured through it ? Yet the time has been when this neglected work was so popular , that it was translated into Latin by no common master . His ...
Page 20
... censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness propa- gates itself . He that is weary the first hour , is more weary the second ; as bodies forced into mo- tion contrary to their tendency pass more and more slowly through every ...
... censured and forgotten , but the power of tediousness propa- gates itself . He that is weary the first hour , is more weary the second ; as bodies forced into mo- tion contrary to their tendency pass more and more slowly through every ...
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