Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xvi
... persons , is the great impediment of biography . History may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge , which ́ is growing every day less , and in a short time is lost for ...
... persons , is the great impediment of biography . History may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge , which ́ is growing every day less , and in a short time is lost for ...
Pàgina xvii
... persons from whom he derived it . Thus we find him citing his father , an old bookseller , in illustration of the sale of ' Absalom and Achitophel , ' and the character- istic story he has given of the preaching of Burnet and Sprat ...
... persons from whom he derived it . Thus we find him citing his father , an old bookseller , in illustration of the sale of ' Absalom and Achitophel , ' and the character- istic story he has given of the preaching of Burnet and Sprat ...
Pàgina xxxi
... person placed a new pair at his door ; but he spurned them away in a fury . Distress made him , not ser- vile , but reckless and ungovernable . No opulent gentleman com- moner , panting for one - and - twenty , could have treated the ...
... person placed a new pair at his door ; but he spurned them away in a fury . Distress made him , not ser- vile , but reckless and ungovernable . No opulent gentleman com- moner , panting for one - and - twenty , could have treated the ...
Pàgina xxxii
... 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 find no way of earning a livelihood . He became usher of a ...
... 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 find no way of earning a livelihood . He became usher of a ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... person and of her man- ners ; and when , long after her decease , he had occasion to mention her , he exclaimed , with a tenderness half ludicrous , half pathetic , " Pretty creature ! " 66 His marriage made it necessary for him to ...
... person and of her man- ners ; and when , long after her decease , he had occasion to mention her , he exclaimed , with a tenderness half ludicrous , half pathetic , " Pretty creature ! " 66 His marriage made it necessary for him to ...
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