Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 118
... discovered his birth , had an incessant desire to speak to his mother , who always avoided him in publick , and refused him admission into her house . One evening walking , as it was his custom , in the street that she inhabited , he ...
... discovered his birth , had an incessant desire to speak to his mother , who always avoided him in publick , and refused him admission into her house . One evening walking , as it was his custom , in the street that she inhabited , he ...
Page 233
... discovered , till Mr. Tyers told , on the authority of Mrs. Racket , that he was a linen - draper in the Strand . Both parents were papists . Pope was from his birth of a constitution tender and delicate ; but is said to have shewn ...
... discovered , till Mr. Tyers told , on the authority of Mrs. Racket , that he was a linen - draper in the Strand . Both parents were papists . Pope was from his birth of a constitution tender and delicate ; but is said to have shewn ...
Page 438
... discovering that no such character as their Lorenzo ever yet disgraced human nature , or broke a father's heart . Yet would ... discovered which betrays any thing like the father . In the second Night 1 find an expression which betrays ...
... discovering that no such character as their Lorenzo ever yet disgraced human nature , or broke a father's heart . Yet would ... discovered which betrays any thing like the father . In the second Night 1 find an expression which betrays ...
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