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Page 281
This story is sufficiently attested ; but why Oxford , who desired to be thought a
favourer of literature , should thus insult a man of acknowledged merit ; or how
Rowe , who was so keen a Whig 4 that he did not willingly converse with men of
the ...
This story is sufficiently attested ; but why Oxford , who desired to be thought a
favourer of literature , should thus insult a man of acknowledged merit ; or how
Rowe , who was so keen a Whig 4 that he did not willingly converse with men of
the ...
Page 423
tifiable , ” very ill became men , who have themselves not always shewn the
exactest regard to the laws of subordination in their writings , and who have often
satirised those that at least thought themselves their superiors , as they were ...
tifiable , ” very ill became men , who have themselves not always shewn the
exactest regard to the laws of subordination in their writings , and who have often
satirised those that at least thought themselves their superiors , as they were ...
Page 450
... and that he thought it his interest to extinguish the memory of the first tragedy ,
which he could only do by writing one less defective upon the same story ; by
which he should entirely defeat the artifice of the booksellers , who , after the
death ...
... and that he thought it his interest to extinguish the memory of the first tragedy ,
which he could only do by writing one less defective upon the same story ; by
which he should entirely defeat the artifice of the booksellers , who , after the
death ...
Page 648
If this song lives , Posterity shall know One , though in Britain born , with courciers
bred , Who thought ev ' n gold might come a day too late ; Nor on his subcle ceath
- bed plann ' d his scheme For future vacancies in church or state , Deduct ...
If this song lives , Posterity shall know One , though in Britain born , with courciers
bred , Who thought ev ' n gold might come a day too late ; Nor on his subcle ceath
- bed plann ' d his scheme For future vacancies in church or state , Deduct ...
Page 657
His plan seems to have started in his mind at the present moment , and his
thoughts appear the effect of chance ... that the thought of the Last Day makes
every man more than poetical , ' by spreading over his mind a general obscurity
of ...
His plan seems to have started in his mind at the present moment , and his
thoughts appear the effect of chance ... that the thought of the Last Day makes
every man more than poetical , ' by spreading over his mind a general obscurity
of ...
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| Title | Lives Volume 1 of The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | A. Miller, 1800 |
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