Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina ix
... give a greater attraction to their under- taking , they agreed that to the works of each author a concise account of his life should be prefixed , and Dr. Johnson , as the most distinguished of his contemporaries , was solicited to ...
... give a greater attraction to their under- taking , they agreed that to the works of each author a concise account of his life should be prefixed , and Dr. Johnson , as the most distinguished of his contemporaries , was solicited to ...
Pàgina xvi
... give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can por- tray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and ...
... give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can por- tray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and ...
Pàgina xxi
... give him but a very slender claim to so lengthened a biography . But the life was originally written as a tale accompanied by a moral , and with no view whatever to a series of Lives . It would indeed be difficult in that sense to tell ...
... give him but a very slender claim to so lengthened a biography . But the life was originally written as a tale accompanied by a moral , and with no view whatever to a series of Lives . It would indeed be difficult in that sense to tell ...
Pàgina xxiii
... give way — he took credit to himself for concealing what he called the coarseness of Lord Lyttelton's manners , and an anecdote as he told Hawkins in its nature very ridiculous . Johnson was occa- sionally himself the " good hater ” he ...
... give way — he took credit to himself for concealing what he called the coarseness of Lord Lyttelton's manners , and an anecdote as he told Hawkins in its nature very ridiculous . Johnson was occa- sionally himself the " good hater ” he ...
Pàgina xxv
... gives ( I feel and regret ) a most undue preference to rhyme over blank verse , and is too uncompromising an advocate ... give them utterance . The style throughout is peculiarly good Johnsonian , modulated to a march never monotonois ...
... gives ( I feel and regret ) a most undue preference to rhyme over blank verse , and is too uncompromising an advocate ... give them utterance . The style throughout is peculiarly good Johnsonian , modulated to a march never monotonois ...
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