“The” Lives of the English Poets: In Two Volumes, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1858 - 429 pages |
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Page 7
... favour of the Elector of Bavaria . " I shall expect , " says he , " with impatience , the return of Mr. Prior , whose conduct is very agreeable to me . " And while the Duke of Shrewsbury was still at Paris , Bolingbroke wrote to Prior ...
... favour of the Elector of Bavaria . " I shall expect , " says he , " with impatience , the return of Mr. Prior , whose conduct is very agreeable to me . " And while the Duke of Shrewsbury was still at Paris , Bolingbroke wrote to Prior ...
Page 8
... favour ; and that they now thought a stricter confine- ment necessary than to his own house . " Here , " says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the Christian , but both very awkwardly . " The messenger , in whose ...
... favour ; and that they now thought a stricter confine- ment necessary than to his own house . " Here , " says he , " Boscawen played the moralist , and Coningsby the Christian , but both very awkwardly . " The messenger , in whose ...
Page 25
... favour , that , being in a high degree offended and disgusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he lived for himself and for his friends ...
... favour , that , being in a high degree offended and disgusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he lived for himself and for his friends ...
Page 34
... favour they almost all courted , was his professed ad- versary . He had besides given them reason for resentment ; as , in his preface to " Prince Arthur , " he had said of the dramatic writers almost all that was alleged afterwards by ...
... favour they almost all courted , was his professed ad- versary . He had besides given them reason for resentment ; as , in his preface to " Prince Arthur , " he had said of the dramatic writers almost all that was alleged afterwards by ...
Page 40
... his place by " Eliza " in silence and darkness ; benevolence was ashamed to favour , and malice was weary of insulting . Of his four epic poems , the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the 40 BLACKMORE .
... his place by " Eliza " in silence and darkness ; benevolence was ashamed to favour , and malice was weary of insulting . Of his four epic poems , the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the 40 BLACKMORE .
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