Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina x
... printed narratives . Seeing the scantiness of Murdoch's ' Memoir of Thomson , ' he requested Boswell to procure what information he could in Scotland concerning him ; and from the following letter it will be seen that he at least ...
... printed narratives . Seeing the scantiness of Murdoch's ' Memoir of Thomson , ' he requested Boswell to procure what information he could in Scotland concerning him ; and from the following letter it will be seen that he at least ...
Pàgina xi
... printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King is a Whig he will not like them ; but is any King a Whig ? " Other and ampler notices of the second and last portion occur in his ...
... printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the King is a Whig he will not like them ; but is any King a Whig ? " Other and ampler notices of the second and last portion occur in his ...
Pàgina xv
... printed his poem to Sacheverell , whereas it is to be seen with his other earliest printed productions in so common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a discovery to ...
... printed his poem to Sacheverell , whereas it is to be seen with his other earliest printed productions in so common a book as Tonson's Miscellany ; confounds Sir Richard Steele with Dicky Norris the actor ; attributes a discovery to ...
Pàgina xxi
... printed among the Poets differs from the first edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling It was a work of necessity and love . " I wrote , " he ...
... printed among the Poets differs from the first edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling It was a work of necessity and love . " I wrote , " he ...
Pàgina xxxii
... printed a translation , little noticed at the time , and long forgotten , of a Latin book about Abyssinia . He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian , with notes cou- taining a history of modern ...
... printed a translation , little noticed at the time , and long forgotten , of a Latin book about Abyssinia . He then put forth proposals for publishing by subscription the poems of Politian , with notes cou- taining a history of modern ...
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