Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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Pàgina xiv
... reader is now and then required to see the Doctor and Dictator triumphant over the subject of his narrative . When ... readers of this edition . They are of two kinds - those attributable to the imperfect information of his period , and ...
... reader is now and then required to see the Doctor and Dictator triumphant over the subject of his narrative . When ... readers of this edition . They are of two kinds - those attributable to the imperfect information of his period , and ...
Pàgina xv
... readers that King James and not King Charles made Dryden historiographer ; assigns Dry- den's translation of Maimbourg to a period subsequent to his conversion , when it was well known that it appeared while Charles the Second was yet ...
... readers that King James and not King Charles made Dryden historiographer ; assigns Dry- den's translation of Maimbourg to a period subsequent to his conversion , when it was well known that it appeared while Charles the Second was yet ...
Pàgina xvii
... reader to infer that he has obtained his information from accessible mate- rials . Yet and mark his incessant love of truth - where he introduces . new matter , he is particularly careful to name the persons from whom he derived it ...
... reader to infer that he has obtained his information from accessible mate- rials . Yet and mark his incessant love of truth - where he introduces . new matter , he is particularly careful to name the persons from whom he derived it ...
Pàgina xxii
... reader of the life arrives . It is indeed & sketch reluctantly and hastily put together - reluctantly , because he was willing to have adopted a life by any friendly hand , and hastily , because he wrote it from few materials , and at ...
... reader of the life arrives . It is indeed & sketch reluctantly and hastily put together - reluctantly , because he was willing to have adopted a life by any friendly hand , and hastily , because he wrote it from few materials , and at ...
Pàgina xxiv
... and penetrating , and the reader never loses the presence of a clear intel- lect . Wherever the world has dissented from his judgments , the world is still curious to preserve his opinions ; and where Σχίν EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... and penetrating , and the reader never loses the presence of a clear intel- lect . Wherever the world has dissented from his judgments , the world is still curious to preserve his opinions ; and where Σχίν EDITOR'S PREFACE .
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