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 x
... hope by the honest 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 ...
... hope by the honest 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 ...
Pàgina xi
... hope , in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety . ” .. “ I got my Lives , " he writes to Mrs. Thrale , “ not yet quite printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the ...
... hope , in such a manner as may tend to the promotion of piety . ” .. “ I got my Lives , " he writes to Mrs. Thrale , “ not yet quite printed , put neatly together , and sent them to the King . What he says of them I know not . If the ...
Pàgina xii
... hope to despatch four or five of them . ” “ My Lives creep on , " he writes , May 9 , 1780. “ I have done Addison , Prior , Rowe , Granville , Sheffield , Collins , Pitt , and almost Fenton . ” Congreve was his next Life , and was soon ...
... hope to despatch four or five of them . ” “ My Lives creep on , " he writes , May 9 , 1780. “ I have done Addison , Prior , Rowe , Granville , Sheffield , Collins , Pitt , and almost Fenton . ” Congreve was his next Life , and was soon ...
Pàgina xvi
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
Pàgina xxvi
... hope to say something before concluding it . 10 " All people upon 10 Let me give two instances in an extract from one of Cowley's letters . the place incline to that of union ; ' ' so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . has told ...
... hope to say something before concluding it . 10 " All people upon 10 Let me give two instances in an extract from one of Cowley's letters . the place incline to that of union ; ' ' so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . has told ...
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