Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 51
... death putting an end to his expectations abated his diligence : and Pope represents him as falling from that time into intemperance of wine 3 . That in his latter life he was too much a lover of the bottle is not denied ; but I have ...
... death putting an end to his expectations abated his diligence : and Pope represents him as falling from that time into intemperance of wine 3 . That in his latter life he was too much a lover of the bottle is not denied ; but I have ...
Page 281
... death to Swift was laid by for some days unopened , because when he received it he was imprest with the preconception of some misfortune . After his death was published a second volume of Fables 25 more political than the former . His ...
... death to Swift was laid by for some days unopened , because when he received it he was imprest with the preconception of some misfortune . After his death was published a second volume of Fables 25 more political than the former . His ...
Page 407
... death of princes has produced . By transferring the mention of her death to her birth - day he has formed a happy combina- tion of topicks , which any other man would have thought it very difficult to connect in one view , but which he ...
... death of princes has produced . By transferring the mention of her death to her birth - day he has formed a happy combina- tion of topicks , which any other man would have thought it very difficult to connect in one view , but which he ...
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