Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson Peter Cunningham. LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS , WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORKS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . WITH NOTES CORRECTIVE AND EXPLANATORY , BY PETER ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson Peter Cunningham. LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS , WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORKS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . WITH NOTES CORRECTIVE AND EXPLANATORY , BY PETER ...
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... Johnson , as the most distin- guished of his contemporaries , was solicited to undertake the task . Johnson was pleased with the offer , and undertook to write what he describes in a letter to Boswell as " little Lives and little ...
... Johnson , as the most distin- guished of his contemporaries , was solicited to undertake the task . Johnson was pleased with the offer , and undertook to write what he describes in a letter to Boswell as " little Lives and little ...
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... Johnson had commenced with Spenser , and Beattie ex- pressed his regret that he had not given Spenser instead of Cowley . Yet a criticism on The Faerie Queene ' would hardly have supplied Johnson with points of equal value to those ...
... Johnson had commenced with Spenser , and Beattie ex- pressed his regret that he had not given Spenser instead of Cowley . Yet a criticism on The Faerie Queene ' would hardly have supplied Johnson with points of equal value to those ...
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... JOHNSON . " Nor was he without friends able and willing to assist him . Lord Hailes sent communications for the memoirs of Dryden and Thomson ; Cradock lent him a copy of Euripides with Milton's MS . notes ; and through Dr. Percy he ...
... JOHNSON . " Nor was he without friends able and willing to assist him . Lord Hailes sent communications for the memoirs of Dryden and Thomson ; Cradock lent him a copy of Euripides with Milton's MS . notes ; and through Dr. Percy he ...
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... Johnson's work may be said to consist . The secret of Johnson's excellence will be found in the knowledge of human life which his Lives ' exhibit ; in the many admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative ...
... Johnson's work may be said to consist . The secret of Johnson's excellence will be found in the knowledge of human life which his Lives ' exhibit ; in the many admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative ...
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