The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volume 4Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1800 |
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Page 40
... should re- ceive . Their commerce had its beginning in hope of praise on one fide , and of money on the other , and ended becaufe Pope was lefs eager of money than Halifax of praise . It is not likely that Hali- fax had any personal ...
... should re- ceive . Their commerce had its beginning in hope of praise on one fide , and of money on the other , and ended becaufe Pope was lefs eager of money than Halifax of praise . It is not likely that Hali- fax had any personal ...
Page 72
... should turn his Effay into Latin profe ; but no fuch performance has ever appeared . Pope lived at this time among the Great , with that reception and refpect to which his works . ` entitled him , and which he had not impaired by any ...
... should turn his Effay into Latin profe ; but no fuch performance has ever appeared . Pope lived at this time among the Great , with that reception and refpect to which his works . ` entitled him , and which he had not impaired by any ...
Page 73
... should be thought to stay at home in expectation of an honour which would not be conferred . He was therefore angry at Swift , who represents him as " refufing , the vifits of a Queen , " because he knew that what had never been offered ...
... should be thought to stay at home in expectation of an honour which would not be conferred . He was therefore angry at Swift , who represents him as " refufing , the vifits of a Queen , " because he knew that what had never been offered ...
Page 80
... should be more fafe , if he were lefs bufy . The " Memoirs of Scriblerus , " published about this time , extend only to a work projected in con- cert by Pope , Swift , and Arbuthnot , who used to meet in the time of Queen Anne , and ...
... should be more fafe , if he were lefs bufy . The " Memoirs of Scriblerus , " published about this time , extend only to a work projected in con- cert by Pope , Swift , and Arbuthnot , who used to meet in the time of Queen Anne , and ...
Page 83
... should have been in fome degree mollified by this fub- . miffive gentleness , but no fuch confequence appear- ed . Though he condefcended to commend Cibber once , he mentioned him afterwards contemptuously in one of his fatires , and ...
... should have been in fome degree mollified by this fub- . miffive gentleness , but no fuch confequence appear- ed . Though he condefcended to commend Cibber once , he mentioned him afterwards contemptuously in one of his fatires , and ...
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