The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... This practice Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through all its varieties ; and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a passion SWIFT 3.
... This practice Lord Orrery imputes to his innate love of grossness and vulgarity : some may ascribe it to his desire of surveying human life through all its varieties ; and others , perhaps with equal probability , to a passion SWIFT 3.
Pàgina 11
... desires to have others believe , what he probably believed himself , that by his inter- position many Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many ...
... desires to have others believe , what he probably believed himself , that by his inter- position many Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many ...
Pàgina 21
... desire or possess , were fatal to the unfortunate Stella . The man whom she had the mis- fortune to love was , as Delany observes , fond of singularity , and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself , different from the general ...
... desire or possess , were fatal to the unfortunate Stella . The man whom she had the mis- fortune to love was , as Delany observes , fond of singularity , and desirous to make a mode of happiness for himself , different from the general ...
Pàgina 27
... desire to attain , and for having attained he deserves praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactic , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that ...
... desire to attain , and for having attained he deserves praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactic , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that ...
Pàgina 32
... desire . He is querulous and fastidious , arrogant and malignant ; he scarcely speaks of himself but with indignant lamentations , or of others but with insolent superiority when he is gay , and with angry contempt when he is gloomy ...
... desire . He is querulous and fastidious , arrogant and malignant ; he scarcely speaks of himself but with indignant lamentations , or of others but with insolent superiority when he is gay , and with angry contempt when he is gloomy ...
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