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Pàgina xxi
... published his subscription Shakspeare , for which proposals had been long in circu- lation . The author's celebrated " Journey to the Hebrides " was published in 1775. Whatever might be his prejudices against Scotland , its natives must ...
... published his subscription Shakspeare , for which proposals had been long in circu- lation . The author's celebrated " Journey to the Hebrides " was published in 1775. Whatever might be his prejudices against Scotland , its natives must ...
Pàgina xxiii
... published in 1735 , with London ' on the title - page , though it was printed in Birmingham . For this work he had from Mr. Warren only the sum of five guineas . " - Boswell , p . 21 . 5 At the time of the marriage Johnson was twenty ...
... published in 1735 , with London ' on the title - page , though it was printed in Birmingham . For this work he had from Mr. Warren only the sum of five guineas . " - Boswell , p . 21 . 5 At the time of the marriage Johnson was twenty ...
Pàgina 2
... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
... published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This comedy is of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living world , and therefore the time at which it was composed adds little to the wonders of Cowley's ...
Pàgina 3
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company , without paying some duties , or obliging themselves , to be true to love . " This ...
... published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface to a subsequent edition , that " poets are scarcely thought freemen of their company , without paying some duties , or obliging themselves , to be true to love . " This ...
Pàgina 32
... published " An Essay upon Gaming . " He seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry ; for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his ...
... published " An Essay upon Gaming . " He seems to have divided his studies between law and poetry ; for , in 1636 , he translated the second book of the Æneid . Two years after , his father died ; and then , notwithstanding his ...
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