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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... written ; while others are in themselves monuments of literary history , possessing beauties which entitle them to revival . If they have fallen into oblivion , it is only from the antiquity of the language , the various allusions which ...
... written ; while others are in themselves monuments of literary history , possessing beauties which entitle them to revival . If they have fallen into oblivion , it is only from the antiquity of the language , the various allusions which ...
Strana viii
... writing Mr. Pope's Life , whenever the world may have so great a loss , and I offered to give him any lights I could ... written by his locum tenens , sheet by sheet . " This is no doubt a true account of the transaction , for in 1761 ...
... writing Mr. Pope's Life , whenever the world may have so great a loss , and I offered to give him any lights I could ... written by his locum tenens , sheet by sheet . " This is no doubt a true account of the transaction , for in 1761 ...
Strana ix
... written , that " Warburton was , thirty years since , an attorney at Newark , and got into orders by spitting into a nobleman's face at an election ! " Dr. Warton lived in habits of friendship with Spence , and has enlivened his ...
... written , that " Warburton was , thirty years since , an attorney at Newark , and got into orders by spitting into a nobleman's face at an election ! " Dr. Warton lived in habits of friendship with Spence , and has enlivened his ...
Strana x
... writing the Life of Dryden , and he availed himself of the privilege of making a complete transcript for his own use ; in doing this , he has not observed the chronological order of the original , but has classed the anecdotes ...
... writing the Life of Dryden , and he availed himself of the privilege of making a complete transcript for his own use ; in doing this , he has not observed the chronological order of the original , but has classed the anecdotes ...
Strana xi
... writing of Mr. Spence , and on the first leaf of the Paper Book containing the two first centuries , the following note was written by him in pencil : " All the people well acquainted with Mr. Pope , looked on him as a most friendly ...
... writing of Mr. Spence , and on the first leaf of the Paper Book containing the two first centuries , the following note was written by him in pencil : " All the people well acquainted with Mr. Pope , looked on him as a most friendly ...
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