The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 110
... desire of pleasure , and habitual slavery to his passions , which involved him in many perplexities . He happened at that time to be engaged in the pursuit of some trifling gratification , and , being without money for the present ...
... desire of pleasure , and habitual slavery to his passions , which involved him in many perplexities . He happened at that time to be engaged in the pursuit of some trifling gratification , and , being without money for the present ...
Page 123
Samuel Johnson. to an annual panegyric , shewed in the Queen too much desire of hearing her own praises , and a greater regard to herself than to him on whom her bounty was conferred . It was a kind of avaricious generosity , by which ...
Samuel Johnson. to an annual panegyric , shewed in the Queen too much desire of hearing her own praises , and a greater regard to herself than to him on whom her bounty was conferred . It was a kind of avaricious generosity , by which ...
Page 125
... desire to be distinguished ; and , when any controversy became popular , he never wanted some reason for engaging in it with great ardour , and appearing at the head of the party which he had chosen . As he was ne- ver celebrated for ...
... desire to be distinguished ; and , when any controversy became popular , he never wanted some reason for engaging in it with great ardour , and appearing at the head of the party which he had chosen . As he was ne- ver celebrated for ...
Page 164
... desire of surveying human life through all its varieties : and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a passion which seems to have been deeply fixed in his heart , the love of a shilling . In time he began to think that his ...
... desire of surveying human life through all its varieties : and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a passion which seems to have been deeply fixed in his heart , the love of a shilling . In time he began to think that his ...
Page 171
... desires to have others believe , what he probably believed himself , that by his interposition many whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many ...
... desires to have others believe , what he probably believed himself , that by his interposition many whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many ...
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