The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina xii
Samuel Johnson. JOHN DRYDEN - continued . His belief in Astrology , 160 -- His critical powers , 161 - Absalom and Achitophel , 173 - The Medal , 173 — The Hind and Panther , 176 — His Juvenal , 178 - His Virgil , 179 - His Fables , 181 ...
Samuel Johnson. JOHN DRYDEN - continued . His belief in Astrology , 160 -- His critical powers , 161 - Absalom and Achitophel , 173 - The Medal , 173 — The Hind and Panther , 176 — His Juvenal , 178 - His Virgil , 179 - His Fables , 181 ...
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... continued still his admirer . The booksellers , also , were sensible of his value as a literary labourer , and employed him in that laborious and gigantic task , a Dictionary of the Language . How it is executed is well known , and ...
... continued still his admirer . The booksellers , also , were sensible of his value as a literary labourer , and employed him in that laborious and gigantic task , a Dictionary of the Language . How it is executed is well known , and ...
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... continued his studies with great intenseness ; for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of ...
... continued his studies with great intenseness ; for he is said to have written , while he was yet a young student , the greater part of his " Davideis ; " a work of which the materials could not have been collected without the study of ...
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... continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke : In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass ...
... continued by tradition , because they supply commodious allusions . It gave a piteous groan , and so it broke : In vain it something would have spoke ; The love within too strong for't was , Like poison put into a Venice - glass ...
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... continued till it is tedious : I ' th ' library a few choice authors stood , Yet ' twas well stored , for that small store was good ; Writing , man's spiritual physic , was not then Itself , as now , grown a disease of men . Learning ...
... continued till it is tedious : I ' th ' library a few choice authors stood , Yet ' twas well stored , for that small store was good ; Writing , man's spiritual physic , was not then Itself , as now , grown a disease of men . Learning ...
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