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death of Queen Mary in ????. Tonson at once became even less co- operative than before; one day he refused point-blank to do Dryden some small serviceand the poet sat down and gave these three lines to a messenger with the injunction: ‘Tell the dog that he who wrote these can write more’. The lines were: With leering looksbull-faced and freckled fair With two left legsand Judas-coloured hair And frowsy pores that taint the ambient air. Tonson hastened to comply––but in the end got his own backfor although he did not get the desired dedication to the Kinghe cunningly altered each picture of Aeneas to resemble His Majesty whose hook-nose was one of his most notable features. Drydenfor all his tweaking of Tonson’s earwas half afraid of him; after allit was his livelihood that was at stake in these exchanges. One day at home Dryden was entertaining a young manHenry St Johnlater to become famous as Viscount Bolingbroke; St John heard someone else enter the house. Dryden broke o? his conversation and said to him: ‘This is Tonson; you will take care not to depart before he goes away: for I have not completed the sheet which I promised him; mens louis vuitton beltsyilai: nike high heels louis vuitton outlet http://leetstreams.com/profile_blogs/yixian005/&action=view&id=190955 |
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