Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1868 |
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... Success as a Dramatist - Serves as a Cornet in the English Army in Flanders - His Poverty and tragic End - Buried in St. Clement's Danes - His Works and Character EDMUND WALLER . - 1605-1687 . · 287 Born at Coleshill , in Hertfordshire ...
... Success as a Dramatist - Serves as a Cornet in the English Army in Flanders - His Poverty and tragic End - Buried in St. Clement's Danes - His Works and Character EDMUND WALLER . - 1605-1687 . · 287 Born at Coleshill , in Hertfordshire ...
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... the ' Life of Young as a work possessing a considerable share of merit , and display- 7 Misc . Works , ed . 1884 , vol . ii . , p . 441 . ing a pretty successful imitation of Johnson's style , Burke EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxi.
... the ' Life of Young as a work possessing a considerable share of merit , and display- 7 Misc . Works , ed . 1884 , vol . ii . , p . 441 . ing a pretty successful imitation of Johnson's style , Burke EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxi.
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With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. ing a pretty successful imitation of Johnson's style , Burke vehemently opposed him . " No , no , " he exclaimed , " it is not a good imitation of Johnson ; it has all his pomp ...
With Critical Observations on Their Works Samuel Johnson. ing a pretty successful imitation of Johnson's style , Burke vehemently opposed him . " No , no , " he exclaimed , " it is not a good imitation of Johnson ; it has all his pomp ...
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... success of the work , and Johnson's enlargement of the design , induced the booksellers to add one hundred guineas more , and after a brief interval a second one hundred guineas , so that the sum he received was four hundred guineas ...
... success of the work , and Johnson's enlargement of the design , induced the booksellers to add one hundred guineas more , and after a brief interval a second one hundred guineas , so that the sum he received was four hundred guineas ...
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... several writers of the nineteenth century of whom the least successful has received forty thousand pounds from the booksellers . B * But Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON . xxxiii.
... several writers of the nineteenth century of whom the least successful has received forty thousand pounds from the booksellers . B * But Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON . xxxiii.
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