Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina vi
... 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 every Poet an advertisement , like those which we find in the ...
... 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 every Poet an advertisement , like those which we find in the ...
Pàgina vii
... tell the booksellers to employ a transcriber . If you think my inspection necessary , I will come down ; for who that has once experienced the civilities of Cambridge would not snatch the opportunity of another visit ? " I am , Sir ...
... tell the booksellers to employ a transcriber . If you think my inspection necessary , I will come down ; for who that has once experienced the civilities of Cambridge would not snatch the opportunity of another visit ? " I am , Sir ...
Pàgina xi
... telling the whole truth . " Yet he observed on another occasion , and to Boswell , that " it would produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking , when it was seen that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it ...
... telling the whole truth . " Yet he observed on another occasion , and to Boswell , that " it would produce an instructive caution to avoid drinking , when it was seen that even the learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it ...
Pàgina xii
... tells us in one place that Cowley's unfinished epic is in three books , and in another place ( a few pages on ) that it is in four . We may safely suspect that he had never read Cowley's Comedy - for he mis- takes its title . In his ...
... tells us in one place that Cowley's unfinished epic is in three books , and in another place ( a few pages on ) that it is in four . We may safely suspect that he had never read Cowley's Comedy - for he mis- takes its title . In his ...
Pàgina xiii
... tells us in his ' Life of Dryden , ' " tedious and troublesome ; it requires indeed no great force of understanding , but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making , or is to be fetched from books and ...
... tells us in his ' Life of Dryden , ' " tedious and troublesome ; it requires indeed no great force of understanding , but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making , or is to be fetched from books and ...
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