Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina xv
... honour is pro- duced thrice as his authority in his Lives of Addison and Swift . Dr. Hawkesworth he acknowledges as his authority for an anec- dote of modest Foster ( no common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in support ...
... honour is pro- duced thrice as his authority in his Lives of Addison and Swift . Dr. Hawkesworth he acknowledges as his authority for an anec- dote of modest Foster ( no common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in support ...
Pàgina xxiv
... honour to any name in our literature . He 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 ...
... honour to any name in our literature . He 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 ...
Pàgina xxvii
... honoured with a better binding ) my father learned much , and I have learned something . The reader who delights in biography and has any liking for the notes that follow will excuse this anecdote . To my father's cheap but highly ...
... honoured with a better binding ) my father learned much , and I have learned something . The reader who delights in biography and has any liking for the notes that follow will excuse this anecdote . To my father's cheap but highly ...
Pàgina 7
... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 his Mistress ' was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface ...
... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 his Mistress ' was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface ...
Pàgina 12
... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and , as the predominance of a favourite study affects all sub- ordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind ...
... honour of his country . Considering botany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and , as the predominance of a favourite study affects all sub- ordinate operations of the intellect , botany in the mind ...
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