The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... favour ; a term used in that university to denote want of merit . Of this disgrace it may be easily supposed that he was much ashamed , and shame had its proper effect in producing reforma- tion . He resolved from that time to study ...
... favour ; a term used in that university to denote want of merit . Of this disgrace it may be easily supposed that he was much ashamed , and shame had its proper effect in producing reforma- tion . He resolved from that time to study ...
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... favour as enraged Dennis , ' who , ' he says , ' found himself attacked , without any manner of provocation on his side , and attacked in his person , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when ...
... favour as enraged Dennis , ' who , ' he says , ' found himself attacked , without any manner of provocation on his side , and attacked in his person , instead of his writings , by one who was wholly a stranger to him , at a time when ...
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... favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady determined to abide by her own choice , he supposed that separation might do what can rarely be ...
... favour of a young gentleman of inferior condition . Having discovered the correspondence between the two lovers , and finding the young lady determined to abide by her own choice , he supposed that separation might do what can rarely be ...
Pàgina 54
... favour of the public extended , by soliciting a subscription to a version of the Iliad , with large notes . To print by subscription was , for some time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first considerable work for which this ...
... favour of the public extended , by soliciting a subscription to a version of the Iliad , with large notes . To print by subscription was , for some time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first considerable work for which this ...
Pàgina 55
... favoured . The greatness of the design , the popularity of the author , and the attention of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future sale , that the booksellers made their offers with great eagerness ; but ...
... favoured . The greatness of the design , the popularity of the author , and the attention of the literary world , naturally raised such expectations of the future sale , that the booksellers made their offers with great eagerness ; but ...
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