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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... edition of the British Poets from Chaucer to Churchill , resolv on publishing a rival edition , more correct in text than that of Bell , and at the same time superior in print and paper . To give a greater attraction to their ...
... edition of the British Poets from Chaucer to Churchill , resolv on publishing a rival edition , more correct in text than that of Bell , and at the same time superior in print and paper . To give a greater attraction to their ...
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... edition . They are of two kinds — those attributable to the imperfect information of his period , and those due to his own neglect . Thus , in the first written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he tells us in one place that Cowley's ...
... edition . They are of two kinds — those attributable to the imperfect information of his period , and those due to his own neglect . Thus , in the first written of the ' Lives , ' that of Cowley , he tells us in one place that Cowley's ...
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... edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling It was a work of necessity and love . “ I wrote , " he observed in after life , “ forty - eight of ...
... edition only in the alteration of an almost unimportant passage , and in the omission of certain extracts , meant at first for filling It was a work of necessity and love . “ I wrote , " he observed in after life , “ forty - eight of ...
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... edition I have sought to substantiate doubtful information and to correct what is wrong in matters of fact , leaving points of taste as much as possible to the reader's own good judgment to receive or to reject . In particular passages ...
... edition I have sought to substantiate doubtful information and to correct what is wrong in matters of fact , leaving points of taste as much as possible to the reader's own good judgment to receive or to reject . In particular passages ...
Pàgina xxvii
... edition I first read Johnson , and determined twenty years ago to become his editor . LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON . BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . a comPETER CONNINGIAM . Kensington , Sept. 21 , 1854 . EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxvii.
... edition I first read Johnson , and determined twenty years ago to become his editor . LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON . BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY . a comPETER CONNINGIAM . Kensington , Sept. 21 , 1854 . EDITOR'S PREFACE . xxvii.
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