The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina vii
... pounds for what he was to perform . It is true that , as he himself described it in a letter to Boswell , his engagement was only " to write little lives and little prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets , YAZZMALITAT.
... pounds for what he was to perform . It is true that , as he himself described it in a letter to Boswell , his engagement was only " to write little lives and little prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets , YAZZMALITAT.
Pàgina viii
... pounds was given for a single work of Robert- son's , by one member of this deputation , and in which Strahan and Cadell had united to pay Hawkesworth six thousand pounds for the heavy compi- lation called Cook's Voyages , the forty ...
... pounds was given for a single work of Robert- son's , by one member of this deputation , and in which Strahan and Cadell had united to pay Hawkesworth six thousand pounds for the heavy compi- lation called Cook's Voyages , the forty ...
Pàgina xix
... pounds sterling . In poverty , however , his learning and his probity secured him respect . He was received in the best society of his native place . His first literary attempt , the translation of " Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia ...
... pounds sterling . In poverty , however , his learning and his probity secured him respect . He was received in the best society of his native place . His first literary attempt , the translation of " Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia ...
Pàgina xx
... pounds , with twenty - four more , when the work came to a second edition . The mode in which " Rasselas " was composed , and the purposes for which it was written , show that the author's situation was still embarrassed . But his ...
... pounds , with twenty - four more , when the work came to a second edition . The mode in which " Rasselas " was composed , and the purposes for which it was written , show that the author's situation was still embarrassed . But his ...
Pàgina xxiv
... pounds . Loud clamour is always more or less insane ; but probably the insanest of all loud clamours in the eighteenth century was this that was raised about Johnson's Pension The whole sum that Johnson , during the remain- ing twenty ...
... pounds . Loud clamour is always more or less insane ; but probably the insanest of all loud clamours in the eighteenth century was this that was raised about Johnson's Pension The whole sum that Johnson , during the remain- ing twenty ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1857 |
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1864 |
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