 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...he understatesman, as Pope informed Mr. Spence, " loved very much to read and talk of the classicks in his retirement. We used to take a ride out together...four days in the week, and at last almost every day." Spence's ANECDOTES. At the commencement of their acquaintance, Pope was only seventeen. — Beside... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 670 pages
...he understatesman, as Pope informed Mr. Spence, " loved very much to read and talk of the classicks in his retirement. We used to take a ride out together...four days in the week, and at last almost every day." Spence's ANECDOTES. At the commencement of their acquaintance, Pope was only seventeen. — Beside... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 528 pages
...1705, he became acquainted with Pope *, who then lived at Binfield. Pope informed Mr. Spence, that he " loved very much to read and talk of the classics in...four days in the week, and at last almost every day." His letters to Pope breathe an air of uncommon good iemper, good sense, candour, and tranquillity of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 520 pages
...Spence, that he "loved very much to read and talk of the classics in bis retirement. We ;used .to takefa ride out together three or four days in the week, and at last almost everyday." His letters to Pope breathe an,air of uncommon good. temper, good sense, candour, and tranquillity... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 322 pages
...with him.] It was while I lived in the Forest that I got so well acquainted with Sir William Trumbull, who loved very much to read and talk of the Classics...in Worcestershire for a good part of the summer of 1705; and showed him my Essay on Criticism in 1706*. Walsh died the year after. I was early acquainted... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...him.]] It was while I lived in the Forest that I got so well acquainted with Sir William Trumbull, who loved very much to read and talk of the Classics...in Worcestershire for a good part of the summer of 1705 ; and showed him my Essay on Criticism in 1706*. Walsh died the year after. I was early acquainted... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...to read together, and converse on the Roman writers in Sir William's retirement, but to take a ride together three or four days in the week, and at last almost every day ; and when they were separated, an epistolary correspondence subsisted between them, which throws considerable... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...to read together, and converse on the Roman writers in Sir William's retirement, but to take a ride together three or four days in the week, and at last almost every day ; and when they were separated, an epistolary correspondence subsisted between them, which throws considerable... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...1711 ; which is as little time as ever I let any thing of mine lay by me." 3 "I was with him [Walsh] at his seat in Worcestershire for a good part of the...705, and showed him my Essay on Criticism in 1706."* That he wrote it with rapidity, the matter having been all digested in prose, before he began to put... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1835 - 342 pages
...1711 ; which is as little time as ever I let any thing of mine lay by me."3 " I was with him [Walsh] at his seat in Worcestershire for a good part of the summer of 1705, and showed him my Essay on Criticism in 1706."* That he wrote it with rapidity, the matter having... | |
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It was while I lived in the Forest, that I got so well acquainted with Sir William Trumbull, who loved very much to read and talk of the classics in his retirement. We used to take a ride out together, three or four days in the week, and at last, almost... 
