The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and illiterate . Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of ...
... edition was raised before the second could be made ; it was read by the high and the low , the learned and illiterate . Criticism was for a while lost in wonder ; no rules of judgment were applied to a book written in open defiance of ...
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... editions , that Swift had never been known to take a single thought from any writer , ancient or modern . This is not literally true ; but perhaps no writer can easily be found that has borrowed so little , or that in all his ...
... editions , that Swift had never been known to take a single thought from any writer , ancient or modern . This is not literally true ; but perhaps no writer can easily be found that has borrowed so little , or that in all his ...
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... edition had this line : ' What is this wit-- Where wanted , scorn'd ; and envied where acquired ? ' ' How , ' says the critic , ' can wit be scorn'd where it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land ? The ...
... edition had this line : ' What is this wit-- Where wanted , scorn'd ; and envied where acquired ? ' ' How , ' says the critic , ' can wit be scorn'd where it is not ? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land ? The ...
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... edition , was forced to publish it . The event is said to have been such as was desired ; the pacification and diversion of all to whom it related , except Sir George Brown , who complained with some bitterness that , in the character ...
... edition , was forced to publish it . The event is said to have been such as was desired ; the pacification and diversion of all to whom it related , except Sir George Brown , who complained with some bitterness that , in the character ...
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... of his profit . An edition of the English Iliad was printed in Holland in duodecimo , and imported clandestinely for the gratification of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud POPE 55.
... of his profit . An edition of the English Iliad was printed in Holland in duodecimo , and imported clandestinely for the gratification of those who were impatient to read what they could not yet afford to buy . This fraud POPE 55.
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