The Works of the English Poets, Volume 33W. and A. Strahan, 1779 - 360 pages |
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Page iv
... fame time , told me it would create him many enemies . He was not miftaken . For though the terror of his pen kept them for fome time in respect , yet on his death they rose with unrestrained fury , in numerous Coffee - houfe tales ...
... fame time , told me it would create him many enemies . He was not miftaken . For though the terror of his pen kept them for fome time in respect , yet on his death they rose with unrestrained fury , in numerous Coffee - houfe tales ...
Page vi
... fame advantage of my absence ( for , while I live , I will freely trust it to my Life to confute them ) may I find a friend as careful of my honest fame as I have been of His ! Together with his Works , he hath bequeathed me his Dunces ...
... fame advantage of my absence ( for , while I live , I will freely trust it to my Life to confute them ) may I find a friend as careful of my honest fame as I have been of His ! Together with his Works , he hath bequeathed me his Dunces ...
Page vii
... fame pe- tulancy at their funeral would have been rewarded with execration and a gibbet . The Public may be malici- ous ; but is rarely vindictive or ungenerous . It would abhor these infults on a writer dead , though it had borne with ...
... fame pe- tulancy at their funeral would have been rewarded with execration and a gibbet . The Public may be malici- ous ; but is rarely vindictive or ungenerous . It would abhor these infults on a writer dead , though it had borne with ...
Page xv
... Fame . For none have wit ( whatever they pretend ) Singly to raise a Patron or a Friend ; But whatfoe'er the theme or object be , Some commendations to themselves forefee . Then let us find , in your foregoing page , The celebrating ...
... Fame . For none have wit ( whatever they pretend ) Singly to raise a Patron or a Friend ; But whatfoe'er the theme or object be , Some commendations to themselves forefee . Then let us find , in your foregoing page , The celebrating ...
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... fame , or pleafure , as each affords the other . Every one acknowledges , it would be a wild notion to expect perfection in any work of man and yet one would think the contrary was taken for granted , by the judgment commonly paffed ...
... fame , or pleafure , as each affords the other . Every one acknowledges , it would be a wild notion to expect perfection in any work of man and yet one would think the contrary was taken for granted , by the judgment commonly paffed ...
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