 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 страници
...at sixty years old, as he had done ever since forty, when a fever occasioned that loss to him.— P. Prior was not a right good man. He used to bury himself,...mean creature, and often drank hard. He turned from a strong whig (which he had been when most with Lord Halifax) to a violent tory ; and did not care... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1860 - 338 страници
...a naturally inferior taste, he is said to have been coarse and low in his amours. Prior, says Pope, was not a right good man. He used to bury himself...with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard. He left most of his effects to the poor woman he kept company with — his Chloe. Every body knows what... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 552 страници
...PRIOR. 166*— 1721. " PRIOR was not a right good man," Pope is made to say in Spence's Anecdotes. " He used to bury himself, for whole days and nights...with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard. He left most of his effects to the poor woman he kept company with, his Chloe; everybody knows what a... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1861 - 560 страници
...MATTHEW PRIOR 1664—1721. " PRIOE was not a right good man," Pope is made to say in Spence's Anecdotes. ''He used to bury himself, for whole days and nights...with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard. He left most of his effects to the poor woman he kept company with, his Chloe; everybody knows what a... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - 1861 - 470 страници
...name of Chloe. Pope says everybody knew what a wretch this woman was, and adds, on another occasion, " Prior was not a right good man ; he used to bury himself for whole days and nights together with this poor mean creature, and often drank hard." In Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, so named from Henrietta,... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1866 - 350 страници
...a naturally inferior taste, he is said to have been coarse and low in his amours. Prior, says Pope, was not a right good man. He used to bury himself...together with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard. Ho left most of his effects to the poor woman he kept company with — his Chloe. Every body knows... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 414 страници
...is said to have been the original of the beautiful ' Chloe ' of his poem ; and, according to Pope, ' he used to bury himself, for whole days and nights together, with this poor, mean creature.' BRYAN WALLER PROCTER (BARRY CORNWALL). 1787-1874. knew nothing of London... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1885 - 384 страници
...is said to have been the original of the beautiful ' Chloe ' of his poem ; and, according to Pope, ' he used to bury himself, for whole days and nights together, with this poor, mean creature.' BRYAN WALLER PROCTER (BARRY CORNWALL). 1787-1874. "PROCTER knew nothing... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 страници
...always endowed even with comeliness of person. Pope—by no means a rigid moralist—says of him,—' He was not a right good man. He used to bury himself...with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard. He left most of his effects to the poor woman he kept company with—his Chloe [a certain Bessy Cox].... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - 1888 - 392 страници
...woman is said to have been the original of the beautiful ' Ghloe ' of his poem; and, according to Pope, 'he used to bury himself, for whole days and nights together, with this poor, mean creature.' BRYAN WALLER 'PROCTER (BAKRY CORNWALL). 1787-1874. "PROCTER knew nothing... | |
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Prior was not a right good man. He used to bury himself, for whole days and nights together, with a poor mean creature, and often drank hard. 
