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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Pàgina v
... continued dissipation - His Quarrel with Lord Mulgrave - Burnet's Account of his last Illness - Death and Burial at Spilsbury , in Oxfordshire - His Character as a Poet 215 ! EARL OF ROSCOMMON . - 1634-1684 . Born in Ireland V.
... continued dissipation - His Quarrel with Lord Mulgrave - Burnet's Account of his last Illness - Death and Burial at Spilsbury , in Oxfordshire - His Character as a Poet 215 ! EARL OF ROSCOMMON . - 1634-1684 . Born in Ireland V.
Pàgina xiii
... continued to our own time , and will certainly continue unimpaired . “ Biography , " says this greatest of biographers , " is “ of the various kinds of narrative writing that which is most eagerly read , and most easily applied to the ...
... continued to our own time , and will certainly continue unimpaired . “ Biography , " says this greatest of biographers , " is “ of the various kinds of narrative writing that which is most eagerly read , and most easily applied to the ...
Pàgina xxi
... continued at this speed , he would have written the whole Life at four sittings , for the original edition , to which he referred , is contained in one hundred and eighty pages . The ' Life of Pope , ' for the facts it contains — facts ...
... continued at this speed , he would have written the whole Life at four sittings , for the original edition , to which he referred , is contained in one hundred and eighty pages . The ' Life of Pope , ' for the facts it contains — facts ...
Pàgina xxv
... continued meditation , and write their productions only , when in their own opinion they have completed them . " " His style attained in this way that certain roll and balance so characteristic of him . The original MS . of his ' Life ...
... continued meditation , and write their productions only , when in their own opinion they have completed them . " " His style attained in this way that certain roll and balance so characteristic of him . The original MS . of his ' Life ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... continued to be under the illusions of the wedding - day till the lady died in her sixty - fourth year . On her monument he placed an inscription , extolling the charms of her person and of her manners ; and when , long after her ...
... continued to be under the illusions of the wedding - day till the lady died in her sixty - fourth year . On her monument he placed an inscription , extolling the charms of her person and of her manners ; and when , long after her ...
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