 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 pagine
...way left of excelling ; for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct, and he desired me to make that my study and aim. — The same. [This, I suppose, first led Mr. Pope to turn his lines over and over again so often,... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 pagine
...way left of excelling ; for though we had several great poets, we_neyer had any one .great poet that was correct, and he desired me to make that my study and aim. — The same. [This, I suppose, first led Mr. Pope to turn his lines over and over again so often,... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 pagine
...way left of excelling; for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct, and he desired me to make that my study and aim.—The same. [This, I suppose, first led Mr. Pope to turn his lines over and over again so often,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1839 - 782 pagine
...way left of excelling : for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and he desired me to make that my study and aim." — SPENCE.] -O Dogherty to please him, but the match went off. It was of course to have been a private... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pagine
...way left of excelling : for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and he desired me to make that my study and aim."— SPENCE.J o Dogherty to please him, but the match went off. It was of course to have been a private... | |
 | 1847 - 610 pagine
...way left of excelling ; for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and he desired me to make that my study and aim." " This, I suppose," adds Spence, "first led Mr. Pope to turn his lines over and over again so often,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 450 pagine
...way left of excelling, for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct; and he desired me to make that my study and aim. — POPE : Spence by Sinier, p. 280. " On a flat stone in the church of Abberley, in Worcestershire.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 pagine
...way left of excelling, for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct; and he desired me to make that my study and aim.— I'oi'i: : .Sj««<v !>;/ Siii'/cr, p L'S'i. 9 On a flat stone in the church of Ahberley, in Worcestershire.... | |
 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 pagine
...way left of excelling : for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct; and he desired me to make that my study and aim. — P. [This, I suppose, first led Mr. Pope to turn hia lines over and over again so often, which he... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1858 - 442 pagine
...way left of excelling: for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct; and he desired me to make that my study and aim.—P. [This, I suppose, first led Mr. Pope to turn his lines over and over again so often, which... | |
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He used to encourage me much, and used to tell me, that there was one way left of excelling : for though we had several great poets, we never had any one great poet that was correct; and he desired me to make that my study and aim. 
