The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2B. Tauchnitz, 1858 - 414 pages |
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Page 53
... printed it , however , and seventeen years after , having altered it , and , as he thought , adapted it more to the public taste , he offered it again to the town : but , though he was flushed with the suc- cess of the " Beggar's Opera ...
... printed it , however , and seventeen years after , having altered it , and , as he thought , adapted it more to the public taste , he offered it again to the town : but , though he was flushed with the suc- cess of the " Beggar's Opera ...
Page 57
... printed , the reception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ...
... printed , the reception was different , according to the different opinion of its readers . Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality , as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious light ...
Page 64
... printed in his own edition of his works , I never saw ; " Once a Lover and always a Lover " is said to be in a great degree indecent and gross . Granville could not admire without bigotry ; he copied the wrong as well as the right from ...
... printed in his own edition of his works , I never saw ; " Once a Lover and always a Lover " is said to be in a great degree indecent and gross . Granville could not admire without bigotry ; he copied the wrong as well as the right from ...
Page 65
... printed , he has not inserted into his works . Some time afterwards , ( about 1722 ) being perhaps embar- rassed by his profusion , he went into foreign countries , with the usual pretence of recovering his health . In this state of ...
... printed , he has not inserted into his works . Some time afterwards , ( about 1722 ) being perhaps embar- rassed by his profusion , he went into foreign countries , with the usual pretence of recovering his health . In this state of ...
Page 75
... printed . He was now intimately united to Mr. Addison , who , when he went into Ireland as secretary to the Lord Sunderland , took him thither and employed him in public business ; and when ( 1717 ) afterwards he rose to be secretary of ...
... printed . He was now intimately united to Mr. Addison , who , when he went into Ireland as secretary to the Lord Sunderland , took him thither and employed him in public business ; and when ( 1717 ) afterwards he rose to be secretary of ...
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