The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2F.C. and J. Rivington, 1820 - English poetry |
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... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet , nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of conveni- ence or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil im- mediately visible ...
... told the truth about his own birth , is , in appearance , to be very deficient in candour ; yet , nobody can live long without knowing that falsehoods of conveni- ence or vanity , falsehoods from which no evil im- mediately visible ...
Page 52
... told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sub- limity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the ...
... told that there is something in them of vexation and discontent , discovered by a perpetual attempt to degrade physic from its sub- limity , and to represent it as attainable without much previous or concomitant learning . By the ...
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... told that they were three very ne- cessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play which Pope restored to Brook was then Broome . It was perhaps after this play that he undertook to revise the punctuation of Milton's ...
... told that they were three very ne- cessary men , Ford , Broome , and Fenton . The name in the play which Pope restored to Brook was then Broome . It was perhaps after this play that he undertook to revise the punctuation of Milton's ...
Page 63
... told him , as she said , that he would " lie a - bed , and be fed with a spoon . " This , however , was not the worst that might have been prognosti- cated ; for Pope says , in his Letters , that " he died of indolence ; " but his ...
... told him , as she said , that he would " lie a - bed , and be fed with a spoon . " This , however , was not the worst that might have been prognosti- cated ; for Pope says , in his Letters , that " he died of indolence ; " but his ...
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... told ) or with less ostentation yielded up his Being . The great modesty wch you know was na- tural to him , and ye great Contempt he had for all sorts of Vanity and Parade , never appeared more than in his last moments : He had a ...
... told ) or with less ostentation yielded up his Being . The great modesty wch you know was na- tural to him , and ye great Contempt he had for all sorts of Vanity and Parade , never appeared more than in his last moments : He had a ...
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