Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xiv
... lived in intimacy , he replied , “ Why , no , Sir , after the man is dead ; for then it is done historically . " And that man was Swift . Of the errors into which Johnson has fallen in his ' Lives , ' some account may be expected by the ...
... lived in intimacy , he replied , “ Why , no , Sir , after the man is dead ; for then it is done historically . " And that man was Swift . Of the errors into which Johnson has fallen in his ' Lives , ' some account may be expected by the ...
Pàgina xxiii
... lived with Mason and Walpole , Johnson with Hawkes- worth and Goldsmith . Gray's little coterie ( Gray himself excepted ) depreciated Johnson and his little senate of admirers ; and Goldsmith , the most eminent of Johnson's little club ...
... lived with Mason and Walpole , Johnson with Hawkes- worth and Goldsmith . Gray's little coterie ( Gray himself excepted ) depreciated Johnson and his little senate of admirers ; and Goldsmith , the most eminent of Johnson's little club ...
Pàgina xxxiv
... lived on a footing of equality with nobles and ministers of state . But this was a solitary ex- ception . Even an author whose reputation was established , and whose works were popular , such an author as Thomson , whose Sea- sons were ...
... lived on a footing of equality with nobles and ministers of state . But this was a solitary ex- ception . Even an author whose reputation was established , and whose works were popular , such an author as Thomson , whose Sea- sons were ...
Pàgina xxxvi
... lived - every passage which bears the marks of his higher faculties - is put into the mouth of some member of the opposition . A few weeks after Johnson had entered on these obscure labors , he published a work which at once placed him ...
... lived - every passage which bears the marks of his higher faculties - is put into the mouth of some member of the opposition . A few weeks after Johnson had entered on these obscure labors , he published a work which at once placed him ...
Pàgina xxxvii
... lived in very different circles — one surrounded by dukes and earls , the other by starving pamphleteers and index - makers . Among Johnson's associates at this time may be mentioned Boyse , who , when his shirts were pledged , scrawled ...
... lived in very different circles — one surrounded by dukes and earls , the other by starving pamphleteers and index - makers . Among Johnson's associates at this time may be mentioned Boyse , who , when his shirts were pledged , scrawled ...
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