The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1James Sawers, 1818 - 1271 pàgines |
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... wrote he gave both the fame and the profit to Dr. Bathurst . Indeed the latter wrote them , while Johnson dictated ; though he considered it as a point of honour not to own them . He even used to say he did not write them , on the ...
... wrote he gave both the fame and the profit to Dr. Bathurst . Indeed the latter wrote them , while Johnson dictated ; though he considered it as a point of honour not to own them . He even used to say he did not write them , on the ...
Pàgina xii
... wrote his Rasselas , Prince of Abyssinia , ' that with the profits he might defray the expense of her funeral , and pay some little debts which he had contracted . He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in the evenings of one ...
... wrote his Rasselas , Prince of Abyssinia , ' that with the profits he might defray the expense of her funeral , and pay some little debts which he had contracted . He told Sir Joshua Reynolds that he composed it in the evenings of one ...
Pàgina 13
... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that great numbers were inevit- ably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised , by both Charles the First and Second ...
... wrote a Song of Triumph . But this was a time of such general hope , that great numbers were inevit- ably disappointed ; and Cowley found his reward very tediously delayed . He had been promised , by both Charles the First and Second ...
Pàgina 18
... wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
... wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so imperfect , that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables . If the father of criticism has ...
Pàgina 20
... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil impassive and at leisure ; as epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and ...
... wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil impassive and at leisure ; as epicurean deities , making remarks on the actions of men , and the vicissitudes of life , without interest and ...
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