Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 5 de 63.
Pàgina x
... hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . " A slight sketch slowly expanded into a detailed life , a short character into a general criticism , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the ...
... hope by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . " A slight sketch slowly expanded into a detailed life , a short character into a general criticism , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the ...
Pàgina xi
... hope , in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety . ” " I got my Lives , " he writes to Mrs. Thrale , " not yet quite printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King ...
... hope , in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety . ” " I got my Lives , " he writes to Mrs. Thrale , " not yet quite printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King ...
Pàgina xii
... hope to despatch four or five of them . " " My Lives creep on , " he writes , May 9 , 1780. " I have done Addison , Prior , Rowe , Granville , Sheffield , Collins , Pitt , and almost Fenton . " Congreve was his next Life , and was soon ...
... hope to despatch four or five of them . " " My Lives creep on , " he writes , May 9 , 1780. " I have done Addison , Prior , Rowe , Granville , Sheffield , Collins , Pitt , and almost Fenton . " Congreve was his next Life , and was soon ...
Pàgina xvi
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
Pàgina xxvi
... hope to say something before concluding it . " All people upon 10 Let me give two instances in an extract from one of Cowley's letters . the place incline to that of union ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . " Virgil has ...
... hope to say something before concluding it . " All people upon 10 Let me give two instances in an extract from one of Cowley's letters . the place incline to that of union ; " so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . " Virgil has ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations ..., Volum 1 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1821 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 1 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 1 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
Absalom and Achitophel Addison admired Æneid afterwards appears beauties called Cato censure character Charles copy Court Cowley Cowley's criticism daughter death dedication delight diction died Dryden Duke Earl edition elegance English Essay excellence favour friends genius Georgics honour Hudibras imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden John Milton Johnson Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning letter lines Lives London Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost passion perhaps Philips Pindar play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise Preface printed Prior prose published reader reason remarks rhyme satire says seems sentiments sometimes Spence by Singer Sprat style supposed Swift Syphax Tatler thought tion told Tonson tragedy translation verses versification Virgil Waller Westminster Westminster Abbey Whig write written wrote