Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 162
... person ought to prosecute that revenge from which the person who was injured desisted , I shall not preserve what Mr. Savage sup- pressed of which the publication would indeed have been a punishment too severe for so impotent an assault ...
... person ought to prosecute that revenge from which the person who was injured desisted , I shall not preserve what Mr. Savage sup- pressed of which the publication would indeed have been a punishment too severe for so impotent an assault ...
Page 240
... person , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when all the world knew he was persecuted by fortune ; and not only saw that this was attempted in a clandestine manner , with the utmost falsehood ...
... person , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when all the world knew he was persecuted by fortune ; and not only saw that this was attempted in a clandestine manner , with the utmost falsehood ...
Page 242
... person that wants this wit may indeed be scorned , but the scorn shews the honour which the contemner has for wit . ' Of this remark Pope made the proper use , by correcting the passage . I have preserved , I think , all that is ...
... person that wants this wit may indeed be scorned , but the scorn shews the honour which the contemner has for wit . ' Of this remark Pope made the proper use , by correcting the passage . I have preserved , I think , all that is ...
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