The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 3Methuen, 1896 |
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... pieces . ' But the pleasure of popularity was soon interrupted by domestic misery . Mrs. Johnson , whose conversation was to him the great softener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to decline ; and two ...
... pieces . ' But the pleasure of popularity was soon interrupted by domestic misery . Mrs. Johnson , whose conversation was to him the great softener of the ills of life , began in the year of the Drapier's triumph to decline ; and two ...
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... him as a dictator . In his works , he has given very different specimens both of sentiment and expression . His Tale of a Tub has little re- semblance to his other pieces . It exhibits a vehemence 26 LIVES OF THE POETS.
... him as a dictator . In his works , he has given very different specimens both of sentiment and expression . His Tale of a Tub has little re- semblance to his other pieces . It exhibits a vehemence 26 LIVES OF THE POETS.
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Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. semblance to his other pieces . It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind , a copiousness of images , and vivacity of diction , such as he afterwards never possessed , or never exerted . It is of a ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. semblance to his other pieces . It exhibits a vehemence and rapidity of mind , a copiousness of images , and vivacity of diction , such as he afterwards never possessed , or never exerted . It is of a ...
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... pieces are gross , and some are trifling , would be to tell the reader what he knows already , and to find faults of which the author could not be ignorant , who certainly wrote often not his judgment , but his humour . It was said , in ...
... pieces are gross , and some are trifling , would be to tell the reader what he knows already , and to find faults of which the author could not be ignorant , who certainly wrote often not his judgment , but his humour . It was said , in ...
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... employed , I believe , to make extracts from Eustathius for the notes to the translation of the Iliad ; and in the volumes of poetry published by Lintot , commonly called Pope's Miscellanies , many of his early pieces 35 BROOME.
... employed , I believe , to make extracts from Eustathius for the notes to the translation of the Iliad ; and in the volumes of poetry published by Lintot , commonly called Pope's Miscellanies , many of his early pieces 35 BROOME.
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