Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... lord Halifax a dedication , in which he endeavours to reconcile the reader to that which found few friends among the audience . These apologies are always useless ; de gustibus non est disputandum ; men may be convinced , but they ...
... lord Halifax a dedication , in which he endeavours to reconcile the reader to that which found few friends among the audience . These apologies are always useless ; de gustibus non est disputandum ; men may be convinced , but they ...
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... Halifax , who , by having been first a poet , and then a patron of poetry , had acquired the right of being a judge ... Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it . - When I had finished the two or three ...
... Halifax , who , by having been first a poet , and then a patron of poetry , had acquired the right of being a judge ... Lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it . - When I had finished the two or three ...
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Samuel Johnson. advice ; waited on Lord Halifax some time after ; said , I hoped he would find his objections to those passages removed ; read them to him exactly as they were at first : and his Lordship was extremely pleased with them ...
Samuel Johnson. advice ; waited on Lord Halifax some time after ; said , I hoped he would find his objections to those passages removed ; read them to him exactly as they were at first : and his Lordship was extremely pleased with them ...
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