Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1933 - English poetry |
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Page 79
... reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer . The publick sometimes has its favourites , whom it rewards for one species of excellence with the honours due to another ...
... reputation from their works ; but there are works which owe their reputation to the character of the writer . The publick sometimes has its favourites , whom it rewards for one species of excellence with the honours due to another ...
Page 166
... reputation , are always industrious to swell his works , by uniting his worst productions with his best . In the execution of this scheme , however , he pro- ceeded but slowly , and probably only employed him- self upon it when he could ...
... reputation , are always industrious to swell his works , by uniting his worst productions with his best . In the execution of this scheme , however , he pro- ceeded but slowly , and probably only employed him- self upon it when he could ...
Page 469
... reputation , but never attained any great extent of practice , or eminence of popularity . A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is , for the most part , totally casual : they ...
... reputation , but never attained any great extent of practice , or eminence of popularity . A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is , for the most part , totally casual : they ...
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