Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... number of his Lives . Of all works of eminence it is curious to trace the gradual growth , and the history of the Lives of the Poets ' from com- mencement to completion is not devoid of interest . Johnson's first object was to discover ...
... number of his Lives . Of all works of eminence it is curious to trace the gradual growth , and the history of the Lives of the Poets ' from com- mencement to completion is not devoid of interest . Johnson's first object was to discover ...
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... " I think with all my usual vigour . " Dryden was completed in August , 1778 , and Milton , begun in January , 1779 , was finished in six weeks . The other lives included in the first issue were sixteen in number , and , being very.
... " I think with all my usual vigour . " Dryden was completed in August , 1778 , and Milton , begun in January , 1779 , was finished in six weeks . The other lives included in the first issue were sixteen in number , and , being very.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson Peter Cunningham. issue were sixteen in number , and , being very short , were soon written . In March , 1779 , the first part , containing twenty - two Lives , appeared ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson Peter Cunningham. issue were sixteen in number , and , being very short , were soon written . In March , 1779 , the first part , containing twenty - two Lives , appeared ...
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... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
... numbers ; " and have given such early proofs , not only of powers of language , but of comprehension of things , as to more tardy minds seems scarcely credible . But of the learned puerilities of Cowley there is no doubt , since a ...
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... numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till ...
... numbers . At the same time were produced , from the same university , two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till ...
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