Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... hope you will , if any thing should offer , remember and recommend Sir Your humble servant . ' But it is often more , as ( 38 ) " The point is to get two Guineas for Your humble Servant ' , or ( 61 , to Chesterfield ) ' I have been long ...
... hope you will , if any thing should offer , remember and recommend Sir Your humble servant . ' But it is often more , as ( 38 ) " The point is to get two Guineas for Your humble Servant ' , or ( 61 , to Chesterfield ) ' I have been long ...
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... hope to be admired for Ages [ he had said ] is , in by far the greater part of what are even Authors of repute , an unsubstantial dream . For my part , my first ambition was , and still my strongest wish is , to please my Compeers , the ...
... hope to be admired for Ages [ he had said ] is , in by far the greater part of what are even Authors of repute , an unsubstantial dream . For my part , my first ambition was , and still my strongest wish is , to please my Compeers , the ...
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... Hope ' is among the examples , " To Twilight ' also . In 1833 Wordsworth advised Dyce that ' Miss Williams's Sonnet upon Twilight is pleasing ; that upon Hope of great merit ' . And it would have been odd if Tom Warton's sonnets were ...
... Hope ' is among the examples , " To Twilight ' also . In 1833 Wordsworth advised Dyce that ' Miss Williams's Sonnet upon Twilight is pleasing ; that upon Hope of great merit ' . And it would have been odd if Tom Warton's sonnets were ...
Contents
DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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