Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 88
... Addison an impartial judge ; for he considered him as the writer of Tickell's version . The reasons for his suspicion I will literally transcribe from Mr. Spence's Collection . ' There had been a coldness ( said Mr. Pope ) between Mr.
... Addison an impartial judge ; for he considered him as the writer of Tickell's version . The reasons for his suspicion I will literally transcribe from Mr. Spence's Collection . ' There had been a coldness ( said Mr. Pope ) between Mr.
Page 248
... Addison , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are often spread with boldness very dispro- portionate to their evidence . Why should Addison receive any particular disturbance from the last lines of Windsor Forest ? If ...
... Addison , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are often spread with boldness very dispro- portionate to their evidence . Why should Addison receive any particular disturbance from the last lines of Windsor Forest ? If ...
Page 267
... Addison affected a con- temptuous unconcern , and , in a calm even voice , reproached Pope with his vanity , and , telling him of the improvements which his early works had received from his own remarks and those of Steele , said , that ...
... Addison affected a con- temptuous unconcern , and , in a calm even voice , reproached Pope with his vanity , and , telling him of the improvements which his early works had received from his own remarks and those of Steele , said , that ...
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