Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... pleased with the offer , and undertook to write what he describes in a 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 ...
... pleased with the offer , and undertook to write what he describes in a 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 ...
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... pleased to inform me whether among Mr. Baker's MSS . , or anywhere else at Cambridge , any materials are to be found . If any such collection can be gleaned , I doubt not your willingness to direct our search , and will tell the ...
... pleased to inform me whether among Mr. Baker's MSS . , or anywhere else at Cambridge , any materials are to be found . If any such collection can be gleaned , I doubt not your willingness to direct our search , and will tell the ...
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... pleased to determine . — I am , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON . " " To LORD WESTCOTE . " MY LORD , " Bolt Court , Fleet Street , July 28 , 1780 . " I wish it had been convenient to have had that done which I proposed . I shall certainly not ...
... pleased to determine . — I am , & c . " SAM . JOHNSON . " " To LORD WESTCOTE . " MY LORD , " Bolt Court , Fleet Street , July 28 , 1780 . " I wish it had been convenient to have had that done which I proposed . I shall certainly not ...
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... pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the ...
... pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man , perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the ...
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... pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no ...
... pleased . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred that they were not successful in representing or moving the affections . As they were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising , they had no ...
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