The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, 1: With Critical Observations on Their WorksNichols and Son, 1801 |
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Pàgina 2
... never could bring it to retain the ordinary " rules of grammar . " This is an inftance of the natural defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain ...
... never could bring it to retain the ordinary " rules of grammar . " This is an inftance of the natural defire of man to propagate a wonder . It is furely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain ...
Pàgina 3
... never could prevail on him to learn the " rules without book . " He does not tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , being able to perform his exercifes without them , and being an enemy to constraint , " he fpared himself ...
... never could prevail on him to learn the " rules without book . " He does not tell that he could not learn the rules , but that , being able to perform his exercifes without them , and being an enemy to constraint , " he fpared himself ...
Pàgina 5
... never inferted in any collection of his works ; " but he al- tered the expreffion when the lives were collected into volumes . The fatire was added to Cowley's works by the particular di- rection of Dr. Johnfon . N. B 3 " free ...
... never inferted in any collection of his works ; " but he al- tered the expreffion when the lives were collected into volumes . The fatire was added to Cowley's works by the particular di- rection of Dr. Johnfon . N. B 3 " free ...
Pàgina 6
... never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in some mea- fure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit ...
... never had refolution to tell his paffion . This confideration cannot but abate , in some mea- fure , the reader's efteem for the work and the author . To love excellence , is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to folicit ...
Pàgina 7
... never within the poffibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never faw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; fuppofes himself fome . times invited , and fometimes ...
... never within the poffibility of committing , differs only by the infrequency of his folly from him who praises beauty which he never faw ; complains of jealousy which he never felt ; fuppofes himself fome . times invited , and fometimes ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1839 |
The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1864 |
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