Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina xii
... mean- ing of course the seventh and tenth . Where his preparations . had been greater , he is still more inaccurate . Thus he says of Dryden's King Arthur ' what is true of Albion and Albanius ; mistakes the origin of ' Mac Flecknoe ...
... mean- ing of course the seventh and tenth . Where his preparations . had been greater , he is still more inaccurate . Thus he says of Dryden's King Arthur ' what is true of Albion and Albanius ; mistakes the origin of ' Mac Flecknoe ...
Pàgina xiii
... means attentive to minute accuracy , and omitted when reprinting his Lives to correct the errors that were pointed out to him . Indeed , in his brief Advertisement to the whole work he acknowledges that in the minute kind of history ...
... means attentive to minute accuracy , and omitted when reprinting his Lives to correct the errors that were pointed out to him . Indeed , in his brief Advertisement to the whole work he acknowledges that in the minute kind of history ...
Pàgina xvii
... means of information had indeed been great . His first poem ( London ' ) was admired by Pope , who dragged it out from a mass of anonymous poems by the dunces of the day , and foresaw ( if I may use his own expression® ) the greatness ...
... means of information had indeed been great . His first poem ( London ' ) was admired by Pope , who dragged it out from a mass of anonymous poems by the dunces of the day , and foresaw ( if I may use his own expression® ) the greatness ...
Pàgina xxvi
... 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 Burns died , he made his way on foot to 10 Let me give two instances ...
... 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 Burns died , he made his way on foot to 10 Let me give two instances ...
Pàgina 7
... means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of cha- racters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his ...
... means enough of information , that , whatever he may talk of his own inflammability , and the variety of cha- racters by which his heart was divided , he in reality was in love but once , and then never had resolution to tell his ...
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