The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... formed , and deprived him of the sight of one of his eyes . Johnson was initiated in classical learning at the free - school of his native city , under the tuition of Mr. Hunter , and having afterwards resided some time at the house of ...
... formed , and deprived him of the sight of one of his eyes . Johnson was initiated in classical learning at the free - school of his native city , under the tuition of Mr. Hunter , and having afterwards resided some time at the house of ...
Pàgina vii
... formed and digested the plan of his great philological work , which might then be well esteemed one of the desiderata of English literature : it was announced to the public in 1747 , in a pamph- let entitled , " The Plan of a Dictionary ...
... formed and digested the plan of his great philological work , which might then be well esteemed one of the desiderata of English literature : it was announced to the public in 1747 , in a pamph- let entitled , " The Plan of a Dictionary ...
Pàgina xvii
... formed a memorable era in Johnson's life . It is a work which has contributed to immortalize his name , and has secured that rational esteem , which party or partial- ity could not procure , and which even the injudi- cious zeal of his ...
... formed a memorable era in Johnson's life . It is a work which has contributed to immortalize his name , and has secured that rational esteem , which party or partial- ity could not procure , and which even the injudi- cious zeal of his ...
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... forming descriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dry- den's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight ...
... forming descriptions , they looked out not for images , but for conceits . Night has been a common subject , which poets have contended to adorn . Dry- den's Night is well known ; Donne's is as follows : Thou seest me here at midnight ...
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... be admired . The Anacreontiques , ' therefore , of Cowley , give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been COWLEY . 41.
... be admired . The Anacreontiques , ' therefore , of Cowley , give now all the pleasure which they ever gave . If he was formed by nature for one kind of writing more than for another , his power seems to have been COWLEY . 41.
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