 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, Italian - 1841 - 438 pages
...LONDON : K, SMOURRL, JL'N. 51, RUPEKT STREET, HAYMARKET, PRINTER TO HRH PRINCE ALBERT. ADVERTISEMENT. I UNDERTOOK to write the Life of Petrarch more from...left to a great public institution any work that was ill digested and not worthy of perusal : so I surrounded myself with as many books connected with the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, Italian - 1841 - 426 pages
...UNDERTOOK to write the Life of Petrarch more from accident than original design. It was known that the ReVL Archdeacon Coxe had bequeathed to the Library of the...left to a great public institution any work that was ill digested and not worthy of perusal: so I surrounded myself with as many books connected with the... | |
 | Rush Christopher Hawkins - America - 1887 - 402 pages
...pages 3 and 4: — " I undertook to write the Life of Petrarch more from accident than original design. The Rev. Archdeacon Coxe had bequeathed to the Library...written. Mr. Colburn caused a copy of it to be taken, intending it for publication, and requested me to be the editor .... I found it most incomplete and... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1902 - 252 pages
...nation and De Sade. Not only this, but he is at great pains to be bitter upon Archdeacon Coxe, who had bequeathed to the library of the British Museum a Ms. Life of Petrarch. Of this Ms., Mr. Colburn, it seems, caused a copy to be taken, and, intending it for publication,... | |
 | Brett Zimmerman - Literary Collections - 2005 - 440 pages
...What are we to make of such phraseology as this, occurring in the very second sentence of the work? "It was known that the Rev. Archdeacon Coxe had bequeathed...Museum a Ms. 'Life of the Poet' which he had written" [Poe's italics]. Here "he" implies the poet, but is intended to imply the Archdeacon. Such misconstructions... | |
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I UNDERTOOK to write the Life of Petrarch more from accident than original design. It was known that the Rev. Archdeacon Coxe had bequeathed to the Library of the British Museum a MS. Life of the Poet, which he had written. Mr. Colburn caused a copy of... 