Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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... edition of the British Poets from Chaucer to Churchill , resolved on publishing a rival edition , more correct in text than that of Bell , and at the same time superior in print and paper . To give a greater attraction to their under ...
... edition of the British Poets from Chaucer to Churchill , resolved on publishing a rival edition , more correct in text than that of Bell , and at the same time superior in print and paper . To give a greater attraction to their under ...
Pàgina xiv
... edition . They are of two kinds - those attributable to the imperfect information of his period , and those due to his own neglect . Thus , in the first written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he tells us in one place that Cowley's ...
... edition . They are of two kinds - those attributable to the imperfect information of his period , and those due to his own neglect . Thus , in the first written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he tells us in one place that Cowley's ...
Pàgina xxi
... edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling It was a work of necessity and love . " I wrote , " he observed in after life , " forty - eight of ...
... edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling It was a work of necessity and love . " I wrote , " he observed in after life , " forty - eight of ...
Pàgina xxvi
... edition I have sought to substantiate doubtful informa- tion and to correct what is wrong in matters of fact , leaving points of taste as much as possible to the reader's own good judgment to receive or to reject . In particular ...
... edition I have sought to substantiate doubtful informa- tion and to correct what is wrong in matters of fact , leaving points of taste as much as possible to the reader's own good judgment to receive or to reject . In particular ...
Pàgina xxvii
... edition I first read Johnson , and determined twenty years ago to become his editor . Kensington , Sept. 21 , 1854 . PETER CUNNINGHAM . LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON . BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxvil.
... edition I first read Johnson , and determined twenty years ago to become his editor . Kensington , Sept. 21 , 1854 . PETER CUNNINGHAM . LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON . BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxvil.
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