Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xxvi
... present instance , have I reason to com- plain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . " In this payment the ' Life of Savage ' is not included : this was an early work , for which he ...
... present instance , have I reason to com- plain . The fact is , not that they have paid me too little , but that I have written too much . " In this payment the ' Life of Savage ' is not included : this was an early work , for which he ...
Pàgina xxxix
... present himself at the inhospitable door . Johnson had flattered himself that he should have completed his Dictionary by the end of 1750 , but it was not till 1755 that he at length gave his huge volumes to the world . During the seven ...
... present himself at the inhospitable door . Johnson had flattered himself that he should have completed his Dictionary by the end of 1750 , but it was not till 1755 that he at length gave his huge volumes to the world . During the seven ...
Pàgina xlviii
... present ; and the club itself , consisting of so many eminent men , is to this day popularly designated as Johnson's club . Among the members of this celebrated body was one to whom it has owed the greater part of its celebrity , yet ...
... present ; and the club itself , consisting of so many eminent men , is to this day popularly designated as Johnson's club . Among the members of this celebrated body was one to whom it has owed the greater part of its celebrity , yet ...
Pàgina 38
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . " By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was soon distinguished . " He was wont , " says Sprat ...
... present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson's treatise . " By his mother's solicitation he was admitted into Westminster School , where he was soon distinguished . " He was wont , " says Sprat ...
Pàgina 42
... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
... present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostentatious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect Cowley of having consulted on this ...
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