Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xiii
... common necessities which before compelled him to write , no longer existed , and his pension only added to his disin- clination for work . When he engaged to write the ' Lives of the Poets , ' he was in his seventieth year , and in the ...
... common necessities which before compelled him to write , no longer existed , and his pension only added to his disin- clination for work . When he engaged to write the ' Lives of the Poets , ' he was in his seventieth year , and in the ...
Pàgina xv
... common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a discovery to Congreve that Pindaric odes were regular - when the discovery is to be found in Ben Jonson and Philips's ...
... common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a discovery to Congreve that Pindaric odes were regular - when the discovery is to be found in Ben Jonson and Philips's ...
Pàgina xvii
... common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in support of what he states . Thus we find him referring to Mr. Draper , -to Osborne , whom he knocked down , and in two or three places to Mr. Dodsley . Persons of still greater ...
... common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in support of what he states . Thus we find him referring to Mr. Draper , -to Osborne , whom he knocked down , and in two or three places to Mr. Dodsley . Persons of still greater ...
Pàgina xxxvi
... bold , and yet judicious . For between Johnson and Juvenal there was much in common - much more , certainly , than between Pope and Horace . Johnson's London appeared without his name in May , 1738. Xxxvi LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON .
... bold , and yet judicious . For between Johnson and Juvenal there was much in common - much more , certainly , than between Pope and Horace . Johnson's London appeared without his name in May , 1738. Xxxvi LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON .
Pàgina xl
... common , and sympathized with each other on so many points on which they sympathized with nobody else in the vast population of the capital , that , though the master was often provoked by the monkey - like impertinence of the pupil ...
... common , and sympathized with each other on so many points on which they sympathized with nobody else in the vast population of the capital , that , though the master was often provoked by the monkey - like impertinence of the pupil ...
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