Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and MenJ. Murray, 1820 - 302 էջ |
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... wrote the essay on his life , which is pre- fixed to the Iliad . ' Tis still stiff , and was written much stiffer . As it is , I think verily it cost me more pains in the correcting than the writing of it would have done.-Mr. Pope ...
... wrote the essay on his life , which is pre- fixed to the Iliad . ' Tis still stiff , and was written much stiffer . As it is , I think verily it cost me more pains in the correcting than the writing of it would have done.-Mr. Pope ...
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... wrote the Essay on Criticism fast , for I had digested all the matter in prose before I began upon it in verse . The ... wrote most of the Iliad fast , a great deal of it on journeys , from the little pocket Homer on that shelf there ...
... wrote the Essay on Criticism fast , for I had digested all the matter in prose before I began upon it in verse . The ... wrote most of the Iliad fast , a great deal of it on journeys , from the little pocket Homer on that shelf there ...
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... wrote the law case of the black and white horses with the help of a lawyer : [ and by what he added it seemed to be the late Master of the Rolls , Fortescue . ] Dr. Arbuthnot was the sole writer of John Bull , and so was Gay of the ...
... wrote the law case of the black and white horses with the help of a lawyer : [ and by what he added it seemed to be the late Master of the Rolls , Fortescue . ] Dr. Arbuthnot was the sole writer of John Bull , and so was Gay of the ...
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... wrote them to us ; but neither of us did any more than alter an expression here and there . - The same . Lord Bolingbroke is something superior to any thing I have seen in human nature . You know I don't deal much in hyper- boles . I ...
... wrote them to us ; but neither of us did any more than alter an expression here and there . - The same . Lord Bolingbroke is something superior to any thing I have seen in human nature . You know I don't deal much in hyper- boles . I ...
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... so intimately ac- quainted at Oxford that each used to com- municate to the other whatever verses they wrote even to the least things ; that Tickell " could not have been busied in so long a work 8 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.
... so intimately ac- quainted at Oxford that each used to com- municate to the other whatever verses they wrote even to the least things ; that Tickell " could not have been busied in so long a work 8 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.
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