The Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsWarne, 1872 |
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Pàgina viii
... present edition ; and " that masterpiece of reasoning and satirical pleasantry " the Review of Soame Jenyns having become less accessible than the " very best thing he ever wrote " ought to be , is also added . F. C. CONTENTS . ABRAHAM ...
... present edition ; and " that masterpiece of reasoning and satirical pleasantry " the Review of Soame Jenyns having become less accessible than the " very best thing he ever wrote " ought to be , is also added . F. C. CONTENTS . ABRAHAM ...
Pàgina xix
... present generation never saw him , yet he is , in our mind's eye , a personification as lively as that of Siddons in Lady Macbeth , or Kemble in Cardinal Wolsey.1 All this , as the world well knows , arises from Johnson having found in ...
... present generation never saw him , yet he is , in our mind's eye , a personification as lively as that of Siddons in Lady Macbeth , or Kemble in Cardinal Wolsey.1 All this , as the world well knows , arises from Johnson having found in ...
Pàgina xxii
... present , and that he sat the Jupiter of a little circle , sometimes indeed nodding approba- tion , but always prompt , on the slightest contradiction , to launch the thunders of rebuke and sarcasm . He was , in a word , despotic , and ...
... present , and that he sat the Jupiter of a little circle , sometimes indeed nodding approba- tion , but always prompt , on the slightest contradiction , to launch the thunders of rebuke and sarcasm . He was , in a word , despotic , and ...
Pàgina 1
... present age , had the first fond- ness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster school , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
... present age , had the first fond- ness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster school , where he was soon distinguished . He was wont , says Sprat , to ...
Pàgina 4
... present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
... present time , would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
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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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