The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volumen2W.R. McPhun, 1839 |
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... favour , that , being in a high degree offended and disgusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he lived for himself and for his friends ...
... favour , that , being in a high degree offended and disgusted , he resolved to commit his quiet and his fame no more to the caprices of an audience . From this time his life ceased to be public ; he lived for himself and for his friends ...
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... favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had besides given them reason for resent- ment , as , in his preface to Prince Arthur , he had said of the dramatic writers almost all that was alleged afterwards by ...
... favour they almost all courted , was his professed adversary . He had besides given them reason for resent- ment , as , in his preface to Prince Arthur , he had said of the dramatic writers almost all that was alleged afterwards by ...
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... favour , and malice was weary of insulting . Of his four epic poems , the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the last two had neither friends nor ene ...
... favour , and malice was weary of insulting . Of his four epic poems , the first had such reputation and popularity as enraged the critics ; the second was at least known enough to be ridiculed ; the last two had neither friends nor ene ...
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... favours ; and he had dedicated his Shep- herd's Week to Bolingbroke , which Swift considered as the crime that obstructed all kindness from the house of Ha- nover . He did not , however , omit to improve the right which his office had ...
... favours ; and he had dedicated his Shep- herd's Week to Bolingbroke , which Swift considered as the crime that obstructed all kindness from the house of Ha- nover . He did not , however , omit to improve the right which his office had ...
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... favour , that both the prince and princess went to see his What d'ye call it ? a kind of mock tragedy , in which the ... favoured by the audience , that envy ap- peared against it in the form of criticism ; and Griffin , a player , in ...
... favour , that both the prince and princess went to see his What d'ye call it ? a kind of mock tragedy , in which the ... favoured by the audience , that envy ap- peared against it in the form of criticism ; and Griffin , a player , in ...
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