Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... edition of the British Poets from Chaucer to Churchill , resolved on publishing a rival edition , more correct in text than that of Bell , and at the same time superior in print and paper . To give a greater attraction to their ...
... edition of the British Poets from Chaucer to Churchill , resolved on publishing a rival edition , more correct in text than that of Bell , and at the same time superior in print and paper . To give a greater attraction to their ...
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... edition which he wrote to Nichols to say was " impudently " called his . When persuaded to promise little Lives and little Prefaces to a London edition of our Poets , the undertaking , as then presented to his mind , Johnson tells us ...
... edition which he wrote to Nichols to say was " impudently " called his . When persuaded to promise little Lives and little Prefaces to a London edition of our Poets , the undertaking , as then presented to his mind , Johnson tells us ...
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... edition . They are of two kinds — those attributable to the imperfect in- formation of his period , and those due to his own neglect . Thus , in the first written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he tells us in one place that ...
... edition . They are of two kinds — those attributable to the imperfect in- formation of his period , and those due to his own neglect . Thus , in the first written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he tells us in one place that ...
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... edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling . It was a work of necessity and love . " I wrote , " he observed in after life , forty - eight of ...
... edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling . It was a work of necessity and love . " I wrote , " he observed in after life , forty - eight of ...
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... edition I have sought to substantiate doubtful information and to correct what is wrong in matters of fact , leaving points of taste as much as possible to the reader's own good judgment to receive or to reject . In particular passages ...
... edition I have sought to substantiate doubtful information and to correct what is wrong in matters of fact , leaving points of taste as much as possible to the reader's own good judgment to receive or to reject . In particular passages ...
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