Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xvii
... honour " -is produced thrice as his authority in his Lives of Addison and Swift . Dr. Hawkes- worth he acknowledges as his authority for an anecdote of modest Fos- ter ( no common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in ...
... honour " -is produced thrice as his authority in his Lives of Addison and Swift . Dr. Hawkes- worth he acknowledges as his authority for an anecdote of modest Fos- ter ( no common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in ...
Pàgina xxv
... honour to any name in our literature . He gives ( I feel and regret ) a most undue preference to rhyme over blank verse , and is too uncompromising an advocate for the school of Dryden and Pope ; yet when his principles are understood ...
... honour to any name in our literature . He gives ( I feel and regret ) a most undue preference to rhyme over blank verse , and is too uncompromising an advocate for the school of Dryden and Pope ; yet when his principles are understood ...
Pàgina xxxii
... honour by patronizing the young adventurer , whose repulsive person , unpolished manners , and squalid garb , moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or to disgust . At Lichfield , however , Johnson could ...
... honour by patronizing the young adventurer , whose repulsive person , unpolished manners , and squalid garb , moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or to disgust . At Lichfield , however , Johnson could ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... honour , the addresses of a suitor who might have been her son . The marriage , however , in spite of occa- sional wranglings , proved happier than might have been expected . The lover continued to be under the illusions of the wedding ...
... honour , the addresses of a suitor who might have been her son . The marriage , however , in spite of occa- sional wranglings , proved happier than might have been expected . The lover continued to be under the illusions of the wedding ...
Pàgina xxxvii
... honour of Pope , that he joined heartily in the applause with which the appearance of a rival genius was welcomed . He made inquiries about the author of London . Such a man , he said , could not long be concealed . The name was soon ...
... honour of Pope , that he joined heartily in the applause with which the appearance of a rival genius was welcomed . He made inquiries about the author of London . Such a man , he said , could not long be concealed . The name was soon ...
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