Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageOctagon Books, 1967 - English poetry |
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Page 102
... success is not without a cloud . No sooner was Cato offered to the reader than it was attacked by the acute malignity of Dennis , with all the violence of angry criticism . Dennis , though equally zealous , and probably by his temper ...
... success is not without a cloud . No sooner was Cato offered to the reader than it was attacked by the acute malignity of Dennis , with all the violence of angry criticism . Dennis , though equally zealous , and probably by his temper ...
Page 162
... success was very earnestly promoted by Steele ' , who , when the 2 Eng . Poets , xxxi . 285 . Ante , ROWE , 22 , 35. See Cun- ningham's Lives of the Poets , ii . 185 n . 3 The authority is John Duncombe . Hughes Corres . Preface , p ...
... success was very earnestly promoted by Steele ' , who , when the 2 Eng . Poets , xxxi . 285 . Ante , ROWE , 22 , 35. See Cun- ningham's Lives of the Poets , ii . 185 n . 3 The authority is John Duncombe . Hughes Corres . Preface , p ...
Page 270
... success of The Beggar's Opera , had the mortification to see it again rejected ' . In the last year of queen Anne's life , Gay was made secretary to the earl of Clarendon , ambassador to the court of Hanover 2 . This was a station that ...
... success of The Beggar's Opera , had the mortification to see it again rejected ' . In the last year of queen Anne's life , Gay was made secretary to the earl of Clarendon , ambassador to the court of Hanover 2 . This was a station that ...
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