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... Per- haps this was what he showed Walsh in 1706. M. + " Sir George " written first : that has a line through it , and " Charles " is written over it with a pencil . M. a long time . He could not bear that Sir 20 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.
... Per- haps this was what he showed Walsh in 1706. M. + " Sir George " written first : that has a line through it , and " Charles " is written over it with a pencil . M. a long time . He could not bear that Sir 20 SPENCE'S ANECDOTES.
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... line- Secretosque pios ; his dantem jura Catonem . Æn . 8. 670 . and that I now believe was not meant of Cato Uticensis . - Mr . Pope . What terrible moments does one feel after one has engaged for a large work ! In the beginning of my ...
... line- Secretosque pios ; his dantem jura Catonem . Æn . 8. 670 . and that I now believe was not meant of Cato Uticensis . - Mr . Pope . What terrible moments does one feel after one has engaged for a large work ! In the beginning of my ...
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... lines on Alsop and Friend have more of satire than of compliment in them , though I find they are generally mistaken for the latter only t . It goes on Horace's old method of telling a friend some less fault , while you are commending ...
... lines on Alsop and Friend have more of satire than of compliment in them , though I find they are generally mistaken for the latter only t . It goes on Horace's old method of telling a friend some less fault , while you are commending ...
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... line to the Thames . -Mr . Pope . [ His design for this was to have a swan as flying into the river on each side of the landing place ; then the statues of two river gods reclined on the bank between them and the corner seats or tem ...
... line to the Thames . -Mr . Pope . [ His design for this was to have a swan as flying into the river on each side of the landing place ; then the statues of two river gods reclined on the bank between them and the corner seats or tem ...
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... lines over and over again so often , which he continued to the last , and did it with a surprising facility . ] I learned versification chiefly from Dry- den's works , who has improved it much beyond any of our former poets , and would ...
... lines over and over again so often , which he continued to the last , and did it with a surprising facility . ] I learned versification chiefly from Dry- den's works , who has improved it much beyond any of our former poets , and would ...
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Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men Joseph Spence Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1820 |
Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men Joseph Spence Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1820 |
Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men Joseph Spence Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1820 |
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Side 133 - That's very strange ; but if you had not supped, I must have got something for you. Let me see, what should I have had ? A couple of lobsters ; ay, that would have done very well ; two shillings— tarts, a shilling ; but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket ?' ' No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Side 108 - A little after Dryden went out; and in going, spoke to me again, and desired me to come and see him the next day. I was highly delighted with the invitation; went to see him accordingly : and was well acquainted with him after, as long as he lived.
Side 159 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Side 83 - Shakspeare had just arrived, and the boy sent for from school to him, a head of one of the colleges (who was pretty well acquainted with the affairs of the family) met the child running home, and asked him, whither he was going in so much haste? The boy said, "•To my godfather, Shakspeare.
Side 148 - Snch a post as that, and such a wife as the Countess, do not seem to be, in prudence, eligible for a man that is asthmatic, and we may see the day when he will be heartily glad to resign them both.
Side 129 - Prior was not a right good man. He used to bury himself for whole days and nights together with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard.
Side 136 - OOOJJO some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to the Beggar's Opera.
Side 10 - Addison, to let him know that I was not unacquainted with this behaviour of his; that if I was to speak severely of him in return for it, it should...
Side 8 - Iliad, because he had looked over Mr. Tickell's, but could wish to have the benefit of his observations on my second, which I had then finished, and which Mr. Tickell had not touched upon.
Side 30 - I was a great admirer of Ovid's Metamorphoses, and that was one of the chief reasons that set me upon the thoughts of stealing the Latin language. Mr. Wortley was the only person to whom I communicated my design, and he encouraged me in it. I used to study five or six hours a day for two years in my father's library ; and so got that language, whilst everybody else thought I was reading nothing but novels and romances.