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Pàgina xiv
... performance a Novel , 266 - The Old Bachelor , 266— Taken by the hand by Halifax , 267 - The Double Dealer , 267 - Love for Love , 267 - Jeremy Collier , 268 - Dies , January 29 , 1729 , and is buried in Westminster Abbey , 270- " The ...
... performance a Novel , 266 - The Old Bachelor , 266— Taken by the hand by Halifax , 267 - The Double Dealer , 267 - Love for Love , 267 - Jeremy Collier , 268 - Dies , January 29 , 1729 , and is buried in Westminster Abbey , 270- " The ...
Pàgina xix
... performance , which chiefly resembles it in structure , is the life of the philosopher Demophon in Lucian ; but that slight sketch is far inferior in detail and in vivacity to Boswell's " Life of Johnson , " which , considering the ...
... performance , which chiefly resembles it in structure , is the life of the philosopher Demophon in Lucian ; but that slight sketch is far inferior in detail and in vivacity to Boswell's " Life of Johnson , " which , considering the ...
Pàgina 19
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the ... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge ; Dryden could have supplied the ... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his Miscellanies with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently ...
Pàgina 24
... performance of the work . Sacred history has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative ...
... performance of the work . Sacred history has been always read with submissive reverence , and an imagination overawed and controlled . We have been accustomed to ac- quiesce in the nakedness and simplicity of the authentic narrative ...
Pàgina 32
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of " Cato , " and Pope of his " Essay on Criticism . " In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required ...
... performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob Addison of " Cato , " and Pope of his " Essay on Criticism . " In 1647 , the distresses of the royal family required ...
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