Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 162
... knowledge and to fortune , and flattered himself with advances to be made in science , as with riches , to be enjoyed in some distant period of his life . For the acquisition of knowledge he was indeed far better qualified than for that ...
... knowledge and to fortune , and flattered himself with advances to be made in science , as with riches , to be enjoyed in some distant period of his life . For the acquisition of knowledge he was indeed far better qualified than for that ...
Page 239
... knowledge of Pope's epistolary powers ; for his Letters were given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and she many years afterwards sold them to Curll , who inserted them in a volume of his Miscellanies . Walsh , a name yet preserved ...
... knowledge of Pope's epistolary powers ; for his Letters were given by Cromwell to one Mrs. Thomas , and she many years afterwards sold them to Curll , who inserted them in a volume of his Miscellanies . Walsh , a name yet preserved ...
Page 479
... knowledge , when it produced so little ? Is it worth taking so much pains to leave no memorial but a few poems ? But let it be considered that_Mr . Gray was , to others , at least innocently employed ; to himself , certainly ...
... knowledge , when it produced so little ? Is it worth taking so much pains to leave no memorial but a few poems ? But let it be considered that_Mr . Gray was , to others , at least innocently employed ; to himself , certainly ...
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