Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1938 - English poetry |
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... tion and ambition : to know whether he disentangled himself from these perverters of epistolary integrity , his book and his life must be set in comparison . One of his favourite topicks is contempt of his own poetry . For this , if it ...
... tion and ambition : to know whether he disentangled himself from these perverters of epistolary integrity , his book and his life must be set in comparison . One of his favourite topicks is contempt of his own poetry . For this , if it ...
Page 463
... tion , kept a separate Court , he endeavoured to in- crease his popularity by the patronage of literature , and made Mallet his under - secretary , with a salary of two hundred pounds a year : Thomson likewise had a pension ; and they ...
... tion , kept a separate Court , he endeavoured to in- crease his popularity by the patronage of literature , and made Mallet his under - secretary , with a salary of two hundred pounds a year : Thomson likewise had a pension ; and they ...
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... tion , he very eagerly forced himself into notice by an ambitious ostentation of elegance and literature . con- His Discourse on the Dysentery ( 1764 ) was sidered as a very conspicuous specimen of Latinity , which entitled him to the ...
... tion , he very eagerly forced himself into notice by an ambitious ostentation of elegance and literature . con- His Discourse on the Dysentery ( 1764 ) was sidered as a very conspicuous specimen of Latinity , which entitled him to the ...
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