The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Pope. Pitt. Thomson. Watts. A. Philips. West. Collins. Dyer. Shenstone. Young. Mallet. Akenside. Gray. LytteltonT. Longman, 1794 - English poetry |
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... he was inde- fatigably diligent , and infatiably curious ; wanting health for violent , and money for expensive pleasures ; and having excited in himself 锣 + himfelf very ftrong defires of intellectual eminence , 12 POPE.
... he was inde- fatigably diligent , and infatiably curious ; wanting health for violent , and money for expensive pleasures ; and having excited in himself 锣 + himfelf very ftrong defires of intellectual eminence , 12 POPE.
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... pleasure com- prifed in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might very reasonably and kindly perfuade the author to acquiefce in his own profperity , and forbear an attempt . which he confidered as an unneceffary hazard ...
... pleasure com- prifed in a fiction of which there had been no examples , he might very reasonably and kindly perfuade the author to acquiefce in his own profperity , and forbear an attempt . which he confidered as an unneceffary hazard ...
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... morrow ; but on the morrow fome difficulty emerges , or fome ex- ternal impediment obftructs . Indolence , interruption , bufinefs , and pleasure , all take • their their turns of retardation ; and every long work is 40 POPE .
... morrow ; but on the morrow fome difficulty emerges , or fome ex- ternal impediment obftructs . Indolence , interruption , bufinefs , and pleasure , all take • their their turns of retardation ; and every long work is 40 POPE .
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... , may your vows be crown'd , And Troy's proud walls lie level with the ground ; May Jove restore you , when your toils are o'er , Safe to the pleasures of your native shore . To To all he fued , but chief implor'd for grace POPE . 45.
... , may your vows be crown'd , And Troy's proud walls lie level with the ground ; May Jove restore you , when your toils are o'er , Safe to the pleasures of your native shore . To To all he fued , but chief implor'd for grace POPE . 45.
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... pleasure of " hearing them read at his house - Addison , " Congreve , and Garth were there at the 66 reading . In four or five places , Lord " Halifax stopt me very civilly , and with a " fpeech each time much of the fame kind , " I beg ...
... pleasure of " hearing them read at his house - Addison , " Congreve , and Garth were there at the 66 reading . In four or five places , Lord " Halifax stopt me very civilly , and with a " fpeech each time much of the fame kind , " I beg ...
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