Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina v
... criticism into both editions , the right of selection resting , in both instances oddly enough , with the booksellers , in whose judgment , as men of trade , the Poet whose works were not in demand was doubly dead . The Drama was ...
... criticism into both editions , the right of selection resting , in both instances oddly enough , with the booksellers , in whose judgment , as men of trade , the Poet whose works were not in demand was doubly dead . The Drama was ...
Pàgina vi
... criticism , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the greatest work of its author . 6 It was at one time the intention of the London booksellers to have commenced with Chaucer . King George the Third ...
... criticism , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the greatest work of its author . 6 It was at one time the intention of the London booksellers to have commenced with Chaucer . King George the Third ...
Pàgina ix
... criticism on Collins , and only less generally because the reputation of that poet was but then upon the rise . The friends of Lord Lyttelton were annoyed at the contempt , artful and studied as they called it , thrown upon the ...
... criticism on Collins , and only less generally because the reputation of that poet was but then upon the rise . The friends of Lord Lyttelton were annoyed at the contempt , artful and studied as they called it , thrown upon the ...
Pàgina x
... criticism on Prior was condemned as 66 severe and unjust . " Notwithstanding these and other complaints of the spirit in which the ' Lives ' were written , Johnson's great work obtained an immediate popularity which has continued to our ...
... criticism on Prior was condemned as 66 severe and unjust . " Notwithstanding these and other complaints of the spirit in which the ' Lives ' were written , Johnson's great work obtained an immediate popularity which has continued to our ...
Pàgina xvi
... criticisms of Dennis , but most improperly so . True it is that Dryden and Pope have outlived their antagonists , but ... criticism exercised , on the age in which he himself chose to be ( and was ) a poet . When writing the Lives of ...
... criticisms of Dennis , but most improperly so . True it is that Dryden and Pope have outlived their antagonists , but ... criticism exercised , on the age in which he himself chose to be ( and was ) a poet . When writing the Lives of ...
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