Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina x
... common necessities which before compelled him to write , no longer existed , and his pension only added to his disinclination for work . When he engaged to write the ' Lives of the Poets , ' he was in his seventieth year , and in the ...
... common necessities which before compelled him to write , no longer existed , and his pension only added to his disinclination for work . When he engaged to write the ' Lives of the Poets , ' he was in his seventieth year , and in the ...
Pàgina xiii
... common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a discovery to Congreve - that Pindaric odes were regular - when the discovery is to be found in Ben Jonson and Philips's ...
... common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a discovery to Congreve - that Pindaric odes were regular - when the discovery is to be found in Ben Jonson and Philips's ...
Pàgina xv
... common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in support of what he states . Thus we find him referring to Mr. Draper , -to Osborne , whom he knocked down , and in two or three places to Mr. Dodsley . Persons of still greater ...
... common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in support of what he states . Thus we find him referring to Mr. Draper , -to Osborne , whom he knocked down , and in two or three places to Mr. Dodsley . Persons of still greater ...
Pàgina xxvi
... common stone - mason in the town in which Robert Burns died , he made his way on foot to 10 Let me give two instances in an extract from one of Cowley's letters . " All people upon the place incline to that of union ; " so says Johnson ...
... common stone - mason in the town in which Robert Burns died , he made his way on foot to 10 Let me give two instances in an extract from one of Cowley's letters . " All people upon the place incline to that of union ; " so says Johnson ...
Pàgina 5
... common rules of grammar , in which they dispensed with me alone , because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading and observation . - CoWLEY : Of Myself , ' Essay xi . 6 5 Printed 1633 , in his fifteenth ...
... common rules of grammar , in which they dispensed with me alone , because they found I made a shift to do the usual exercise out of my own reading and observation . - CoWLEY : Of Myself , ' Essay xi . 6 5 Printed 1633 , in his fifteenth ...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations ..., Volum 1 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1864 |
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