The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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Pàgina 57
... expected it to be folicited and he retired from a cold reception , not fubmiffive but indignant , with fuch deference of his own greatnefs as made him unwilling to ex- pofe it to neglect or violation . His modefty was by no means ...
... expected it to be folicited and he retired from a cold reception , not fubmiffive but indignant , with fuch deference of his own greatnefs as made him unwilling to ex- pofe it to neglect or violation . His modefty was by no means ...
Pàgina 82
... expected from any mind , however fertile in itfelf , and however ftored with acqui- fitions . He whofe work is general and arbitrary has the choice of his matter , and takes that which his inclination and his ftudies have best qualified ...
... expected from any mind , however fertile in itfelf , and however ftored with acqui- fitions . He whofe work is general and arbitrary has the choice of his matter , and takes that which his inclination and his ftudies have best qualified ...
Pàgina 107
... expected that they who read the Georgicks and the Eneid fhould be much delighted with any verfion . One All these obftacles Dryden faw , and all these he determined to encounter . The expectation of his work was undoubtedly great ; the ...
... expected that they who read the Georgicks and the Eneid fhould be much delighted with any verfion . One All these obftacles Dryden faw , and all these he determined to encounter . The expectation of his work was undoubtedly great ; the ...
Pàgina 124
... expected . ; , The effect of the Triplet is the fame ; the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet ; but is on a fudden furprized with three rhymes together , to which the reader could not accommodate his voice ...
... expected . ; , The effect of the Triplet is the fame ; the ear has been accustomed to expect a new rhyme in every couplet ; but is on a fudden furprized with three rhymes together , to which the reader could not accommodate his voice ...
Pàgina 160
... expected the author with his book , and had prepared to reward him with a place of three hundred pounds a year . Smith , by pride , or caprice , or indolence , or bafhfulness , neglected to attend him , though doubtlefs warned and ...
... expected the author with his book , and had prepared to reward him with a place of three hundred pounds a year . Smith , by pride , or caprice , or indolence , or bafhfulness , neglected to attend him , though doubtlefs warned and ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1857 |
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