Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... seems himself to have felt , for the Life as printed among the Poets differs from the first edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling . It was ...
... seems himself to have felt , for the Life as printed among the Poets differs from the first edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling . It was ...
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... seems to have been not favourably disposed towards that nobleman . " Such is the observation of Boswell , such was the opinion of the friends of Lord Lyttelton , and such is the result at which every reader of the Life arrives . It is ...
... seems to have been not favourably disposed towards that nobleman . " Such is the observation of Boswell , such was the opinion of the friends of Lord Lyttelton , and such is the result at which every reader of the Life arrives . It is ...
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... seem to have been ambitious , and ' Naufragium Joculare , ' a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince 10 passed through ...
... seem to have been ambitious , and ' Naufragium Joculare , ' a comedy written in Latin , but without due attention to the ... seems to be now universally neglected . At the beginning of the civil war , as the Prince 10 passed through ...
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... of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as rea- sonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy no- 13 Barnesii Anacreontem . - JOHNSON . Cambridge , 12mo . , 1705 . thing , " and to quarrel as to write for.
... of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it seems as rea- sonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy no- 13 Barnesii Anacreontem . - JOHNSON . Cambridge , 12mo . , 1705 . thing , " and to quarrel as to write for.
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... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : — " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now ...
... seems not unworthy of some notice . Speaking of the Scotch treaty then in agitation : — " The Scotch treaty , " says he , " is the only thing now in which we are vitally concerned ; I am one of the last hopers , and yet cannot now ...
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