Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 417
... Young was certainly not ashamed to be patronized by the in- famous Wharton . But Wharton befriended in Young , perhaps , the poet , and particularly the tragedian . If virtuous authors must be patronized only by virtuous peers , who ...
... Young was certainly not ashamed to be patronized by the in- famous Wharton . But Wharton befriended in Young , perhaps , the poet , and particularly the tragedian . If virtuous authors must be patronized only by virtuous peers , who ...
Page 419
... Young had the honour of prefixing to it a recommendatory copy of verses . This is one of the pieces which the author of the Night Thoughts did not republish . ' On the appearance of his Poem on the Last Day , Addison did not return Young's ...
... Young had the honour of prefixing to it a recommendatory copy of verses . This is one of the pieces which the author of the Night Thoughts did not republish . ' On the appearance of his Poem on the Last Day , Addison did not return Young's ...
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... Young , it is not easy to discover . If the son of the author of the Night Thoughts was indeed forbidden his college for a time , at one of our Universities , the author of Paradise Lost is by some supposed to have been dis- gracefully ...
... Young , it is not easy to discover . If the son of the author of the Night Thoughts was indeed forbidden his college for a time , at one of our Universities , the author of Paradise Lost is by some supposed to have been dis- gracefully ...
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