The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 3D. Buchanan, sold by him, & by W. Creech, P. Hill, W. Mudie, & A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1800 |
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Pàgina 11
... should have con- tradicted or explained away . The oath was ad ministered by Bofcawen , a Middlefex juftice , who at laft was going to write his atteftation on the wrong fide of the paper . They were very induftrious to find fome charge ...
... should have con- tradicted or explained away . The oath was ad ministered by Bofcawen , a Middlefex juftice , who at laft was going to write his atteftation on the wrong fide of the paper . They were very induftrious to find fome charge ...
Pàgina 13
... should fquander it . The price of the volume was two guineas ; the whole collection was four thoufand ; to which lord Har- ley , the fon of the earl of Oxford , to whom he had invariably adhered , added an equal fum for the purchase of ...
... should fquander it . The price of the volume was two guineas ; the whole collection was four thoufand ; to which lord Har- ley , the fon of the earl of Oxford , to whom he had invariably adhered , added an equal fum for the purchase of ...
Pàgina 23
... should controul his defire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be ftill the author , and still in danger of deceiving himself : and if he confults his friends , he will probably find men who have ...
... should controul his defire of immediate renown , and keep his work nine years unpublished , he will be ftill the author , and still in danger of deceiving himself : and if he confults his friends , he will probably find men who have ...
Pàgina 37
... should " not have come to visit him . " In his retirement he may be fuppofed to have applied himself to books ; for he difcovers more literature than the poets have commonly attained . But his ftudies were in his latter days obftructed ...
... should " not have come to visit him . " In his retirement he may be fuppofed to have applied himself to books ; for he difcovers more literature than the poets have commonly attained . But his ftudies were in his latter days obftructed ...
Pàgina 38
... should on any other occafion difcover nothing but impotence and poverty . He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy , felection of language , nor fkill in verfification : yet if I were required to felect from the whole ...
... should on any other occafion difcover nothing but impotence and poverty . He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy , felection of language , nor fkill in verfification : yet if I were required to felect from the whole ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1782 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1783 |
The lives of the most eminent English poets; with critical ..., Volum 3 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1865 |
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