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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... copy of Euripides with Milton's MS . notes ; and through Dr. Percy he obtained the use of Clifford's remarks on Dryden , which he had long been looking for in vain . Joseph Warton contributed some useful information to the Lives of ...
... copy of Euripides with Milton's MS . notes ; and through Dr. Percy he obtained the use of Clifford's remarks on Dryden , which he had long been looking for in vain . Joseph Warton contributed some useful information to the Lives of ...
Pàgina xvi
... in imparting it , and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original . If the biographer writes from personal knowledge and makes > a а 4 haste to gratify the public curiosity , there is Xvi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... in imparting it , and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original . If the biographer writes from personal knowledge and makes > a а 4 haste to gratify the public curiosity , there is Xvi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Pàgina xxii
... copy of the Lives ( which I have seen ) with this lettering , “ Johnson's Beauties and Deformities ; " his own part of the book exlibiting the deformities of Johnson rather exaggerated than improved . Even in his few good passages ...
... copy of the Lives ( which I have seen ) with this lettering , “ Johnson's Beauties and Deformities ; " his own part of the book exlibiting the deformities of Johnson rather exaggerated than improved . Even in his few good passages ...
Pàgina xxx
... copies from the antique as to the original models . While he was thus irregularly educating himself , his family was sinking into hopeless poverty . Old Michael Johnson was much better qualified to pore npon books , and to talk about ...
... copies from the antique as to the original models . While he was thus irregularly educating himself , his family was sinking into hopeless poverty . Old Michael Johnson was much better qualified to pore npon books , and to talk about ...
Pàgina xli
... copies for Leicester house . But these overtures seem to have been very coldly received . Johnson had had enough of the patronage of the great to last him all his life , and was not disposed to haunt any other door as he had haunted the ...
... copies for Leicester house . But these overtures seem to have been very coldly received . Johnson had had enough of the patronage of the great to last him all his life , and was not disposed to haunt any other door as he had haunted the ...
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