Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina v
... 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 the first attempt to form a complete body of ...
... 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 the first attempt to form a complete body of ...
Pàgina viii
... writes to Mrs. Thrale , " not yet quite printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King is a Whig , he will not like them ; but is any king a Whig ? " · • Other and ampler ...
... writes to Mrs. Thrale , " not yet quite printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King is a Whig , he will not like them ; but is any king a Whig ? " · • Other and ampler ...
Pàgina ix
... writes to Boswell , August 21 , 1780 , " thinking to write the ' Lives , ' and a great part of the time only think- ing . Several of them , however , are done , and I still think to do the rest . " This still thinking and not performing ...
... writes to Boswell , August 21 , 1780 , " thinking to write the ' Lives , ' and a great part of the time only think- ing . Several of them , however , are done , and I still think to do the rest . " This still thinking and not performing ...
Pàgina x
... writing that which is most eagerly read , and most easily applied to the purposes of life . " This was said long ... write the ' Lives of the Poets , ' he was in his seventieth year , and in the full vigour of his faculties , yet he ...
... writing that which is most eagerly read , and most easily applied to the purposes of life . " This was said long ... write the ' Lives of the Poets , ' he was in his seventieth year , and in the full vigour of his faculties , yet he ...
Pàgina xi
... writes the life of another is either his friend or his enemy , and wishes either to exalt his praise or aggravate ... writing a life a man's pecu- liarities should be mentioned , because they mark his character , Johnson observed in ...
... writes the life of another is either his friend or his enemy , and wishes either to exalt his praise or aggravate ... writing a life a man's pecu- liarities should be mentioned , because they mark his character , Johnson observed in ...
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