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 ix
... speak contemptuously of Spence ; had he any intimation that Spence had ever spoken , as he has written , that " Warburton was , thirty years since , an attorney at Newark , and got into orders by spitting into a nobleman's face at an ...
... speak contemptuously of Spence ; had he any intimation that Spence had ever spoken , as he has written , that " Warburton was , thirty years since , an attorney at Newark , and got into orders by spitting into a nobleman's face at an ...
Strana xxiii
... speak . I soon learned from his servants that he had been all the while without a physician , and had doctored himself ; so I immediately sent for the best aid the place would afford , and despatched a messenger to the minister at ...
... speak . I soon learned from his servants that he had been all the while without a physician , and had doctored himself ; so I immediately sent for the best aid the place would afford , and despatched a messenger to the minister at ...
Strana xxx
... speak with prejudice of Spence when he says that he was a man whose learning was not very great , and whose mind was not very powerful ; " but I must in candour acknowledge that there is no appealing from this judgment : and nothing can ...
... speak with prejudice of Spence when he says that he was a man whose learning was not very great , and whose mind was not very powerful ; " but I must in candour acknowledge that there is no appealing from this judgment : and nothing can ...
Strana 1
... subject , requires the greater care to make it considerable enough to be read . [ He had been just speaking of his Dunciad . ] - P . Garth talked in a less libertine manner , than he had B He been used to do , about the three last ...
... subject , requires the greater care to make it considerable enough to be read . [ He had been just speaking of his Dunciad . ] - P . Garth talked in a less libertine manner , than he had B He been used to do , about the three last ...
Strana 7
... speaking of comparisons upon an absurd and un- natural footing , he mentioned Virgil and Homer ; Corneille and Racine ; the little ivory statue of Polycletes and the Colossus . Magis pares quam similes ? " Ay , that's it in one word ...
... speaking of comparisons upon an absurd and un- natural footing , he mentioned Virgil and Homer ; Corneille and Racine ; the little ivory statue of Polycletes and the Colossus . Magis pares quam similes ? " Ay , that's it in one word ...
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