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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... desire of giving useful pleasure . " A slight sketch slowly expanded into a detailed life , a short character into a general criticisin , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the greatest work of ...
... desire of giving useful pleasure . " A slight sketch slowly expanded into a detailed life , a short character into a general criticisin , and what was undertaken as a light employment became not only the last but the greatest work of ...
Pàgina xxii
... desire to obtain a life with as little trouble to himself as possible :6 " To LORD WESTCOTE . “ Bolt Court , Fleet Street , July 27 , 1780 . 6. MY LORD , “ The course of my undertaking will now require a short life of your brother ...
... desire to obtain a life with as little trouble to himself as possible :6 " To LORD WESTCOTE . “ Bolt Court , Fleet Street , July 27 , 1780 . 6. MY LORD , “ The course of my undertaking will now require a short life of your brother ...
Pàgina 38
... desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
... desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commodious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narrative contained its ...
Pàgina 41
... desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned ...
... desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet of an " airy nothing , " and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned ...
Pàgina 43
... desire had been 15 for some years past , and did still vehemently continue. Auxilium imploret , videatque indigna ... desires , “ like Themistocles , " the art of oblivion , and would have it accounted no less unlawful to rip up old ...
... desire had been 15 for some years past , and did still vehemently continue. Auxilium imploret , videatque indigna ... desires , “ like Themistocles , " the art of oblivion , and would have it accounted no less unlawful to rip up old ...
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