Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina ix
... criticism into both editions , the right of selection resting , in both instances oddly enough , with the book- sellers , in whose judgment , as men of trade , the Poet whose works were not in demand was doubly dead . The Drama was ...
... criticism into both editions , the right of selection resting , in both instances oddly enough , with the book- sellers , in whose judgment , as men of trade , the Poet whose works were not in demand was doubly dead . The Drama was ...
Pàgina x
... criticism , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the greatest work of its author . It was at one time the intention of the London booksellers to have commenced with Chaucer . King George the Third ...
... criticism , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the greatest work of its author . It was at one time the intention of the London booksellers to have commenced with Chaucer . King George the Third ...
Pàgina xii
... against his criticism on Collins , and only less generally because the repu- tation of that poet was but then upon the rise . The friends of Lord Lyttelton were annoyed at the contempt , artful and studied xii EDITOR'S PREFACE.
... against his criticism on Collins , and only less generally because the repu- tation of that poet was but then upon the rise . The friends of Lord Lyttelton were annoyed at the contempt , artful and studied xii EDITOR'S PREFACE.
Pàgina xiii
... criticism on Prior was condemned as severe and unjust . ” 66 Notwithstanding these and other complaints of the spirit in which the ' Lives ' were written , Johnson's great work obtained an immediate popularity which has continued to our ...
... criticism on Prior was condemned as severe and unjust . ” 66 Notwithstanding these and other complaints of the spirit in which the ' Lives ' were written , Johnson's great work obtained an immediate popularity which has continued to our ...
Pàgina xviii
... criticism exercised on the age in which he himself chose to be ( and was ) a poet . When writing the Lives of Wordsworth and Keats , we must not forget the injurious criticisms of the ' Edinburgh , ' or the bitter notice of the ...
... criticism exercised on the age in which he himself chose to be ( and was ) a poet . When writing the Lives of Wordsworth and Keats , we must not forget the injurious criticisms of the ' Edinburgh , ' or the bitter notice of the ...
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