 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 pages
...animate such a reformation. — The same. About 15* I got acquainted with Mr. Walsh : he encouraged me much, and used to tell me that there was one way...several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct, and he desired me to make that my study and aim. — The same. [This, I suppose,... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 pages
...and animate such a reformation.-^-The same. About 15* I got acquainted with Mr. Walsh : he encouraged me much, and used to tell me that there was one way...several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct, and he desired me to make that my study and aim.—The same. [This, I suppose, first... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 pages
...animate such a reformation. — The same. About 15* I got acquainted with Mr. Walsh : he encouraged me much, and used to tell me that there was one way...excelling ; for though we had several great poets, we_neyer had any one .great poet that was correct, and he desired me to make that my study and aim.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1831 - 384 pages
...summer of 1705 at his seat in Worcestershire. " He used to encourage me much," said Pope to Spence, " and used to tell me, that there was one way left of...several great poets, we never had any one great .poet that was correct; and desired me to make that my study and aim." 1 Walsh died in 1708 ; 1 Spence's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...young ambition by judicious praise. ' He used to encourage me much,' said Pope, long afterwards, ' and to tell me that there was one way left of excelling...several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and desired me to make that my study and aim.' Unhappily, this valuable intercourse... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pages
...write." " About afteen," says Pope, " I got acquainted with Mr. Walsh. He used to encourage me much, and tell me, that there was one way left of excelling...several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and he desired me to make that my study and aim." — SPENCE.] -O Dogherty to please... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
..." About fifteen," says Pope, «' I got acquainted with Mr. Walsh. He used to encourage me much, and tell me, that there was one way left of excelling...several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and he desired me to make that my study and aim."— SPENCE.J o Dogherty to please... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 780 pages
...write." " About fifteen," says Pope, " 1 got acquainted with dr. Walsh. He used to encourage me much, and tell me, that there was one way left of excelling...had several great poets, we never had any one great loot that was correct : and he desired me to make that my study and aim." — SPENCE.] o =0 Dogherty... | |
 | 1846 - 386 pages
...of Abberley, in Worcestershire. Walsh, he told Spence, used to encourage him much, and to tell him that there was one way left of excelling ; * ' for,...several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct ;" " and he desired me," said Pope, "to make that my study and aim." Thenconnected... | |
 | 1847 - 610 pages
...his latest. Spence records Pope as saying : — " About fifteen I got acquainted with Mr. Walsh. He used to encourage me much, and used to tell me that...several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and he desired me to make that my study and aim." " This, I suppose," adds Spence,... | |
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He used to encourage me much, and used to tell me, that there was one way left of excelling : for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct; and he desired me to make that my study and aim. 
