Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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Pàgina vii
... written was that of Cowley , sent to press in December , 1777. Waller , Denham , and Butler immediately followed . " I have written a little of the Lives of the Poets , " he says in his annual review of his life made Easter , 1778 , " I ...
... written was that of Cowley , sent to press in December , 1777. Waller , Denham , and Butler immediately followed . " I have written a little of the Lives of the Poets , " he says in his annual review of his life made Easter , 1778 , " I ...
Pàgina viii
... written . In March , 1779 , the first part , containing twenty - two Lives , appeared simultaneously with the poems , and separately in four small volumes . " Last week , " he says in his annual review made Easter , 1779 , " I published ...
... written . In March , 1779 , the first part , containing twenty - two Lives , appeared simultaneously with the poems , and separately in four small volumes . " Last week , " he says in his annual review made Easter , 1779 , " I published ...
Pàgina ix
... written by Herbert Croft , then an un- known man ambitious of literary distinction . He was willing to have obtained other favours of a like character , for the pro- gress of his undertaking had brought him to the task of writing the ...
... written by Herbert Croft , then an un- known man ambitious of literary distinction . He was willing to have obtained other favours of a like character , for the pro- gress of his undertaking had brought him to the task of writing the ...
Pàgina x
... written , Johnson's great work obtained an immediate popularity which has continued to our own time , and will certainly continue unimpaired . Biography , " says this greatest of biographers , " is of the various kinds of narra- tive ...
... written , Johnson's great work obtained an immediate popularity which has continued to our own time , and will certainly continue unimpaired . Biography , " says this greatest of biographers , " is of the various kinds of narra- tive ...
Pàgina xii
... written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he 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 ...
... written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he 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 ...
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