Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina vi
... hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . " A slight sketch slowly expanded into a detailed life , a short character into a general criticism , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the ...
... hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . " A slight sketch slowly expanded into a detailed life , a short character into a general criticism , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the ...
Pàgina viii
... hope , in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety . " " I got my Lives , " he writes to Mrs. Thrale , " not yet quite printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King ...
... hope , in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety . " " I got my Lives , " he writes to Mrs. Thrale , " not yet quite printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King ...
Pàgina xiv
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
Pàgina xxvi
... hope to say something before the third and last volume . In the mean time I may be permitted to relate an anecdote connected with literature and with this book . When my father was a common stone - mason in the town in which Robert ...
... hope to say something before the third and last volume . In the mean time I may be permitted to relate an anecdote connected with literature and with this book . When my father was a common stone - mason in the town in which Robert ...
Pàgina xxix
... hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have ...
... hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . In this minute kind of History , the succession of facts is not easily discovered ; and I am not without suspicion that some of Dryden's works are placed in wrong years . I have ...
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