Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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Page 34
... should inake at least an equal match , and fuch he proposed to her , but found it re- jected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady ...
... should inake at least an equal match , and fuch he proposed to her , but found it re- jected in favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady ...
Page 173
... should turn his Effay into Latin profe ; but no fuch performance has ever appeared . Pope lived at this time among the great , with that reception and refpect to which his works entitled him , and which he 14 to POPE . 173 reasonably ...
... should turn his Effay into Latin profe ; but no fuch performance has ever appeared . Pope lived at this time among the great , with that reception and refpect to which his works entitled him , and which he 14 to POPE . 173 reasonably ...
Page 192
... power or of money ; he pleafed him- felf with being important and formi- dable , and gratified fometimes his pride , and fometimes his refentment ; till at 2 laft laft he began to think he should be more fafe 192 POPE .
... power or of money ; he pleafed him- felf with being important and formi- dable , and gratified fometimes his pride , and fometimes his refentment ; till at 2 laft laft he began to think he should be more fafe 192 POPE .
Page 193
Samuel Johnson. laft he began to think he should be more fafe , if he were lefs bufy . The Memoirs of Scriblerus , publifhed about this time , extend only to the first book of a work , projected in concert by Pope , Swift , and Arbuthnot ...
Samuel Johnson. laft he began to think he should be more fafe , if he were lefs bufy . The Memoirs of Scriblerus , publifhed about this time , extend only to the first book of a work , projected in concert by Pope , Swift , and Arbuthnot ...
Page 199
... should have been , in fome degree , mollified by this fubmiffive gentleness ; but no fuch confequence appeared . Though he condefcended to commend N 4 Cibber Cibber once , he mentioned him after- wards contemptuoufly in POPE . 199.
... should have been , in fome degree , mollified by this fubmiffive gentleness ; but no fuch confequence appeared . Though he condefcended to commend N 4 Cibber Cibber once , he mentioned him after- wards contemptuoufly in POPE . 199.
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