The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... labours . To supply the ne- cessary poetical information , he had recourse to Agucchi , à man of considerable learning , and his intimate friend ; but literary acquirements , and the services of his scholars , were subordinate to the ...
... labours . To supply the ne- cessary poetical information , he had recourse to Agucchi , à man of considerable learning , and his intimate friend ; but literary acquirements , and the services of his scholars , were subordinate to the ...
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... labours . He was offered a salary so pitiful and inadequate for such an assemblage of chef d'œuvres , that , notwithstanding his disinterestedness , which was extreme , he conceived the most lively indig- nation . He made no complaint ...
... labours . He was offered a salary so pitiful and inadequate for such an assemblage of chef d'œuvres , that , notwithstanding his disinterestedness , which was extreme , he conceived the most lively indig- nation . He made no complaint ...
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... labour to produce . Dryden also pro- jected an Epic Poem , but the parsimony of his patrons caused him to abandon his design . Of the little encou- ragement he received he sorely complains , in an " Essay on Satire , " addressed to the ...
... labour to produce . Dryden also pro- jected an Epic Poem , but the parsimony of his patrons caused him to abandon his design . Of the little encou- ragement he received he sorely complains , in an " Essay on Satire , " addressed to the ...
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... labours . On the 1st of May , 1701 , having been some time a cripple in his limbs , he died in Gerard - street , of a mortification in his leg . and The character of Dryden , as a writer , is thus given by ENGLAND . ] 66 DRYDEN . Dr ...
... labours . On the 1st of May , 1701 , having been some time a cripple in his limbs , he died in Gerard - street , of a mortification in his leg . and The character of Dryden , as a writer , is thus given by ENGLAND . ] 66 DRYDEN . Dr ...
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... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multipli- city of his productions , there is sufficient reason to sus- pect that he was not a lover . It will be difficult to prove that Dryden ever made any great advances in literature ...
... labour ; for of labour , notwithstanding the multipli- city of his productions , there is sufficient reason to sus- pect that he was not a lover . It will be difficult to prove that Dryden ever made any great advances in literature ...
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