Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... letter to Boswell as " little Lives and little Prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets . " The Edinburgh collection thus dreaded by the London trade was the first attempt to form a complete body of British poetry , and in its ...
... letter to Boswell as " little Lives and little Prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets . " The Edinburgh collection thus dreaded by the London trade was the first attempt to form a complete body of British poetry , and in its ...
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... letter it will be seen that he at least entered into his task with ardour . " SIR , " To DR . FARMER . " Bolt Court , July 22 , 1777 . " The booksellers of London have undertaken a kind of body of English Poetry , excluding generally ...
... letter it will be seen that he at least entered into his task with ardour . " SIR , " To DR . FARMER . " Bolt Court , July 22 , 1777 . " The booksellers of London have undertaken a kind of body of English Poetry , excluding generally ...
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... letters to Mrs. Thrale . " I have not quite neg- lected my ' Lives , ' " he writes April 6 , 1780 ; " Addison is a long one , but it is done ; Prior is not short , and that is done too . I am upon Rowe , which cannot fill much paper ...
... letters to Mrs. Thrale . " I have not quite neg- lected my ' Lives , ' " he writes April 6 , 1780 ; " Addison is a long one , but it is done ; Prior is not short , and that is done too . I am upon Rowe , which cannot fill much paper ...
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... letters . A cry was raised on more grounds than one against his Life of Milton . " I could thrash his old jacket , " writes Cowper , " till I made his pension jingle in his pocket . " All Cambridge was in arms against what Mackintosh ...
... letters . A cry was raised on more grounds than one against his Life of Milton . " I could thrash his old jacket , " writes Cowper , " till I made his pension jingle in his pocket . " All Cambridge was in arms against what Mackintosh ...
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... letter to obtain through Swift the required diploma . Swift , it is supposed , with- held his recommendation , for Johnson , to whom the place was of the utmost consequence , failed in obtaining it . In other words , Swift refused or ...
... letter to obtain through Swift the required diploma . Swift , it is supposed , with- held his recommendation , for Johnson , to whom the place was of the utmost consequence , failed in obtaining it . In other words , Swift refused or ...
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