Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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Page 183
... received visits , and sometimes presents , from his acquaintances : but they did not amount to a subsistence , for the greater part of which he was indebted to the generosity of this keeper ; but these favours , however they might ...
... received visits , and sometimes presents , from his acquaintances : but they did not amount to a subsistence , for the greater part of which he was indebted to the generosity of this keeper ; but these favours , however they might ...
Page 213
... received with such avidity , that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and illiterate . Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of ...
... received with such avidity , that the price of the first edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and illiterate . Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of ...
Page 467
... received the first part of his education at the grammar - school of Newcastle ; and was afterwards instructed by Mr. Wilson , who kept a private academy . At the age of eighteen he was sent to Edinburgh , that he might qualify himself ...
... received the first part of his education at the grammar - school of Newcastle ; and was afterwards instructed by Mr. Wilson , who kept a private academy . At the age of eighteen he was sent to Edinburgh , that he might qualify himself ...
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