Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men, Collected from the Conversation of Pope and Other Eminent Persons. With Notes and a Life of the Author by Samuel Weller Singer. 2. EdSmith, 1858 - Počet stran: 396 |
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Strana vii
... probably deeming many of the Anec- dotes of too recent date for publication , or possibly thinking them of too trifling a nature to add anything to the repu- tation of their friend ; or it may have been in compliance with the wish of ...
... probably deeming many of the Anec- dotes of too recent date for publication , or possibly thinking them of too trifling a nature to add anything to the repu- tation of their friend ; or it may have been in compliance with the wish of ...
Strana xi
... probably the more genuine and undisguised , because not premeditated , but elicited by the impulse of the moment . In regard to the account of the quarrel between Pope and Addison , contained in the following pages , the necessity must ...
... probably the more genuine and undisguised , because not premeditated , but elicited by the impulse of the moment . In regard to the account of the quarrel between Pope and Addison , contained in the following pages , the necessity must ...
Strana xvi
... probably here , that the thought was first elicited which gave rise to his magnum opus , the Polymetis ; as Gibbon conceived the design of his History , amid the Ruins of the Capitol . - But he did not begin his collection for it until ...
... probably here , that the thought was first elicited which gave rise to his magnum opus , the Polymetis ; as Gibbon conceived the design of his History , amid the Ruins of the Capitol . - But he did not begin his collection for it until ...
Strana xvii
... blank pages . There is also a copy of the first edition , corrected throughout , but chiefly in what regards punctuation . It was probably these which Dr. Warton saw . b her to Oxford for help ; and so walked the LIFE OF THE AUTHOR . xvii.
... blank pages . There is also a copy of the first edition , corrected throughout , but chiefly in what regards punctuation . It was probably these which Dr. Warton saw . b her to Oxford for help ; and so walked the LIFE OF THE AUTHOR . xvii.
Strana xviii
... probably have been intended as a compliment to his noble pupil . To his habits of intimacy , and almost daily intercourse with Pope , we owe the idea of the present collection of anecdotes , which was begun very soon after the ...
... probably have been intended as a compliment to his noble pupil . To his habits of intimacy , and almost daily intercourse with Pope , we owe the idea of the present collection of anecdotes , which was begun very soon after the ...
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