Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works by Samuel Johnson, Volum 1Derby & Jackson, 1861 - 635 pàgines |
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... Johnson , as the most distinguished of his contemporaries , was solicited to undertake the task . Johnson was pleased with the offer , and undertook to write what he describes in a letter to Boswell as a little Lives and little Prefaces ...
... Johnson , as the most distinguished of his contemporaries , was solicited to undertake the task . Johnson was pleased with the offer , and undertook to write what he describes in a letter to Boswell as a little Lives and little Prefaces ...
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Samuel Johnson. 66 > Johnson tells us , seemed not very extensive , or , as he had first written it , not very tedious or difficult . “ My purpose , ” he says , was only to have allotted to every Poet an advertisement , like those which ...
Samuel Johnson. 66 > Johnson tells us , seemed not very extensive , or , as he had first written it , not very tedious or difficult . “ My purpose , ” he says , was only to have allotted to every Poet an advertisement , like those which ...
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Samuel Johnson. down ; for who that has once experienced the civilities of Cambridge would not snatch the opportunity of another visit ? I am , Sir , your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " 66 Nor was he without friends able and ...
Samuel Johnson. down ; for who that has once experienced the civilities of Cambridge would not snatch the opportunity of another visit ? I am , Sir , your most humble servant , " SAM . JOHNSON . " 66 Nor was he without friends able and ...
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Samuel Johnson. 66 > 91 Lyttelton were annoyed at the contempt , artful and studied as they called it , thrown upon the character of a nobleman who , with all the little foibles he might have , was , in their eyes , one of the most ...
Samuel Johnson. 66 > 91 Lyttelton were annoyed at the contempt , artful and studied as they called it , thrown upon the character of a nobleman who , with all the little foibles he might have , was , in their eyes , one of the most ...
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Samuel Johnson. ance . : 7 Own : 193 He knew also his own prejudices , for he had already described in print the temptations which beset and mislead a biographer : - " He that writes the life of another is either his friend or his enemy ...
Samuel Johnson. ance . : 7 Own : 193 He knew also his own prejudices , for he had already described in print the temptations which beset and mislead a biographer : - " He that writes the life of another is either his friend or his enemy ...
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