Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... give a greater attraction to their undertaking , they agreed that to the works of each author a concise account of his life should be prefixed , and Dr. Johnson , as the most distin- guished of his contemporaries , was solicited to ...
... give a greater attraction to their undertaking , they agreed that to the works of each author a concise account of his life should be prefixed , and Dr. Johnson , as the most distin- guished of his contemporaries , was solicited to ...
Pàgina xiv
... give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and ...
... give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and ...
Pàgina xx
... give him but a very slender claim to so lengthened a biography . But the life was ori- ginally written as a tale accompanied by a moral , and with no view whatever to a series of Lives . It would indeed be difficult in that sense to ...
... give him but a very slender claim to so lengthened a biography . But the life was ori- ginally written as a tale accompanied by a moral , and with no view whatever to a series of Lives . It would indeed be difficult in that sense to ...
Pàgina xxii
... give way - he took credit to himself for con- cealing what he called the coarseness of Lord Lyttelton's man- ners , and an anecdote as he told Hawkins in its nature very ridiculous . Johnson was occasionally himself the " good hater he ...
... give way - he took credit to himself for con- cealing what he called the coarseness of Lord Lyttelton's man- ners , and an anecdote as he told Hawkins in its nature very ridiculous . Johnson was occasionally himself the " good hater he ...
Pàgina xxiv
... gives ( I feel and regret ) a most undue preference to blank verse over rhyme , and is too uncompromising an advocate for the school of Dryden and Pope ; yet when his principles are under- stood , it is easy to read him without falling ...
... gives ( I feel and regret ) a most undue preference to blank verse over rhyme , and is too uncompromising an advocate for the school of Dryden and Pope ; yet when his principles are under- stood , it is easy to read him without falling ...
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