Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... 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 design the publication set on foot by an unassisted individual in Edinburgh is preferable ...
... 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 design the publication set on foot by an unassisted individual in Edinburgh is preferable ...
Pàgina vi
... Poets , the undertaking , as then presented to his mind , Johnson tells us , seemed not very ex- tensive , or , as he had first written it , not very tedious or diffi- cult . 66 ' My purpose , " he says , " was only to have allotted to ...
... Poets , the undertaking , as then presented to his mind , Johnson tells us , seemed not very ex- tensive , or , as he had first written it , not very tedious or diffi- cult . 66 ' My purpose , " he says , " was only to have allotted to ...
Pàgina vii
... Poetry , excluding generally the dramas ; and I have undertaken to put before each author's works a sketch of his life , and a character of his writings . Of some , however , I know but very little , and I am afraid I shall not easily ...
... Poetry , excluding generally the dramas ; and I have undertaken to put before each author's works a sketch of his life , and a character of his writings . Of some , however , I know but very little , and I am afraid I shall not easily ...
Pàgina ix
... poetry , nor for the poets themselves . He knew his own prejudices , hurried through his work , and brought it to a close . " Some time in March " ( he observes in his annual review made Easter , 1781 ) " I finished the Lives of the ...
... poetry , nor for the poets themselves . He knew his own prejudices , hurried through his work , and brought it to a close . " Some time in March " ( he observes in his annual review made Easter , 1781 ) " I finished the Lives of the ...
Pàgina xvi
... poets they attacked and the proper importance which Johnson gave to their writings from his knowledge of the influ- ence such satire and criticism exercised , on the age in which he himself chose to be ( and was ) a poet . When writing ...
... poets they attacked and the proper importance which Johnson gave to their writings from his knowledge of the influ- ence such satire and criticism exercised , on the age in which he himself chose to be ( and was ) a poet . When writing ...
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