The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 páginas |
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... labour for the wants of the day ; but having been early in 1762 represented to the King as a very learned and good man without any certain pro- vision , his Majesty was pleased to grant him a pen- sion , which Lord Bute , then first ...
... labour for the wants of the day ; but having been early in 1762 represented to the King as a very learned and good man without any certain pro- vision , his Majesty was pleased to grant him a pen- sion , which Lord Bute , then first ...
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... labour of invention , and the tribute of dependance . The Congratulation was considered as inferior , in poetical merit , to the Panegyric ; and it is reported that , when the King told Waller of the disparity , he answered , " Poets ...
... labour of invention , and the tribute of dependance . The Congratulation was considered as inferior , in poetical merit , to the Panegyric ; and it is reported that , when the King told Waller of the disparity , he answered , " Poets ...
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... labour must have been often interrupted . Being driven from all public stations , he was confessedly and visibly employed upon his poem . -He was obliged , when he had composed as many lines as his memory would conveniently retain , to ...
... labour must have been often interrupted . Being driven from all public stations , he was confessedly and visibly employed upon his poem . -He was obliged , when he had composed as many lines as his memory would conveniently retain , to ...
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... labour to produce them . In 1697 he published his version of the works of " Virgil ; " and in 1699 his last work , his Fables , made its appearance in consequence , as is supposed , of a contract which obliged him , in consideration of ...
... labour to produce them . In 1697 he published his version of the works of " Virgil ; " and in 1699 his last work , his Fables , made its appearance in consequence , as is supposed , of a contract which obliged him , in consideration of ...
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... labour ; but it does not want its negligences ; some of the lines are without correspondent rhymes ; a defect which I never detected but after an acquaint- ance of many years , and which the enthusiasm of the writer might hinder him ...
... labour ; but it does not want its negligences ; some of the lines are without correspondent rhymes ; a defect which I never detected but after an acquaint- ance of many years , and which the enthusiasm of the writer might hinder him ...
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