Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... once experienced the civilities of Cambridge would not snatch the opportunity of another visit ? " I am , Sir , your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " Nor was he without friends able and willing to assist him . Lord Hailes sent ...
... once experienced the civilities of Cambridge would not snatch the opportunity of another visit ? " I am , Sir , your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " Nor was he without friends able and willing to assist him . Lord Hailes sent ...
Pàgina x
... once the leading features , and though he may have omitted a pimple or a freckle , his likeness is unmistakeable - defined yet general , summary yet exact . ( The industry of Johnson was exerted and exhausted in his Dictionary . After ...
... once the leading features , and though he may have omitted a pimple or a freckle , his likeness is unmistakeable - defined yet general , summary yet exact . ( The industry of Johnson was exerted and exhausted in his Dictionary . After ...
Pàgina xix
... once took the liberty to ask him if Swift had personally offended him , and he told me he had not . " He was certainly , as Scott says , no friend to the fame of Swift.7 I am thus particular in referring to Johnson's ' Life of Swift ...
... once took the liberty to ask him if Swift had personally offended him , and he told me he had not . " He was certainly , as Scott says , no friend to the fame of Swift.7 I am thus particular in referring to Johnson's ' Life of Swift ...
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... once memory and inven- tion , and with little intermediate use of the pen form and polish large masses by continued meditation , and write their produc- tions only , when in their own opinion they have completed them . " 999 His style ...
... once memory and inven- tion , and with little intermediate use of the pen form and polish large masses by continued meditation , and write their produc- tions only , when in their own opinion they have completed them . " 999 His style ...
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... once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excel- lence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover ...
... once , and then never had resolution to tell his passion . This consideration cannot but abate , in some measure , the reader's esteem for the work and the author . To love excel- lence is natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover ...
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