Lives of the English Poets: Smith-SavageClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page 47
... passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that selected us for confidence ; we admire more in a patron that judgement which , instead of scattering bounty indiscriminately , directed ...
... passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment . We admire in a friend that understanding that selected us for confidence ; we admire more in a patron that judgement which , instead of scattering bounty indiscriminately , directed ...
Page 48
... passed in 1673 and not repealed till 1828 , all office- holders had to publicly receive the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England . Many Nonconformists complied once , and never went to church again . By the bill of ...
... passed in 1673 and not repealed till 1828 , all office- holders had to publicly receive the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England . Many Nonconformists complied once , and never went to church again . By the bill of ...
Page 73
... passed them over without the least thought of resentment or revenge . As Homer had a Zoilus , so Mr. Rowe had sometimes his ; for there were not wanting malevolent people , and pretenders " Mr. Rowe has given the world some admirable ...
... passed them over without the least thought of resentment or revenge . As Homer had a Zoilus , so Mr. Rowe had sometimes his ; for there were not wanting malevolent people , and pretenders " Mr. Rowe has given the world some admirable ...
Page 74
... passed his time with the Muses and his books , and sometimes the conversation of his friends . ' When he had just got to be easy in his fortune , and was in a fair way to make it better , death swept him away , and in him deprived the ...
... passed his time with the Muses and his books , and sometimes the conversation of his friends . ' When he had just got to be easy in his fortune , and was in a fair way to make it better , death swept him away , and in him deprived the ...
Page 108
... passed during the suspension of The Spectator , though it had not lessened his power of humour , seems to have increased his disposition to seriousness : the proportion of his religious to his comick papers is greater than in the former ...
... passed during the suspension of The Spectator , though it had not lessened his power of humour , seems to have increased his disposition to seriousness : the proportion of his religious to his comick papers is greater than in the former ...
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