Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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Page 40
... gave him no en- couragement to retouch it . This has been too haftily confidered as an inftance of Addison's jealoufy ; for as he could not guefs the conduct of the new defign , or the poffibilities of pleasure comprised in a fiction of ...
... gave him no en- couragement to retouch it . This has been too haftily confidered as an inftance of Addison's jealoufy ; for as he could not guefs the conduct of the new defign , or the poffibilities of pleasure comprised in a fiction of ...
Page 45
... gave great pain to Addifon , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are often spread with boldness very difproportionate to their evidence . Why fhould Addifon receive any parti- cular disturbance from the laft lines of ...
... gave great pain to Addifon , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are often spread with boldness very difproportionate to their evidence . Why fhould Addifon receive any parti- cular disturbance from the laft lines of ...
Page 46
... gave no encouragement to this difin- genuous hoftility ; for , fays Pope , in a Letter to him , indeed your opinion , " that ' tis entirely to be neglected , “ would be my own in my own cafe ' ; " but I felt more warmth here than I ...
... gave no encouragement to this difin- genuous hoftility ; for , fays Pope , in a Letter to him , indeed your opinion , " that ' tis entirely to be neglected , “ would be my own in my own cafe ' ; " but I felt more warmth here than I ...
Page 90
... acquired the right of being a judge , was willing to hear fome books while they were yet unpublished . Of this rehearsal Pope afterwards gave the following account * Spence . " The " The famous Lord Halifax was ra- " ther a 90 POPE .
... acquired the right of being a judge , was willing to hear fome books while they were yet unpublished . Of this rehearsal Pope afterwards gave the following account * Spence . " The " The famous Lord Halifax was ra- " ther a 90 POPE .
Page 115
... gave the fame year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shakespeare . His name was now of fo much authority , that Tonfon thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to demand a fubfcription of fix guineas for Shakespeare's plays in fix quarto ...
... gave the fame year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shakespeare . His name was now of fo much authority , that Tonfon thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to demand a fubfcription of fix guineas for Shakespeare's plays in fix quarto ...
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