The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... wish for a life of ease was always returning . He went to take possession of his deanery as soon as he had obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he might ...
... wish for a life of ease was always returning . He went to take possession of his deanery as soon as he had obtained it ; but he was not suffered to stay in Ireland more than a fortnight before he was recalled to England , that he might ...
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... wish to infringe the toleration , but he opposed their encroachments . To his duty as dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact economy ; and it is said by Delany , that more money was , under his ...
... wish to infringe the toleration , but he opposed their encroachments . To his duty as dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact economy ; and it is said by Delany , that more money was , under his ...
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... wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him , and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his Ode on Solitude , written before he was twelve , in which there is ...
... wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him , and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his Ode on Solitude , written before he was twelve , in which there is ...
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... wishes to save his money conceals his avarice by his malice . Addison had hinted his suspicion that Pope was too much a Tory ; and some of the Tories suspected his principles because he had contributed to the Guardian , which was ...
... wishes to save his money conceals his avarice by his malice . Addison had hinted his suspicion that Pope was too much a Tory ; and some of the Tories suspected his principles because he had contributed to the Guardian , which was ...
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... wish or pleasure of an Englishman , who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden , and , as some men try to be proud of their defects , he extracted an ...
... wish or pleasure of an Englishman , who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden , and , as some men try to be proud of their defects , he extracted an ...
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