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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... language -Death and burial in Westminster Abbey -- Purity and excellence of his writings 225 THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651-1685 . Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and Oxford - Fails as an Actor - Great Success as a Dramatist ...
... language -Death and burial in Westminster Abbey -- Purity and excellence of his writings 225 THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651-1685 . Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and Oxford - Fails as an Actor - Great Success as a Dramatist ...
Pàgina xxi
... language . It is , however , unduly proportioned , when contrasted with the series of Lives into which it was somewhat violently introduced , for the merits of Savage as a poet can give him but a very slender claim to so lengthened a ...
... language . It is , however , unduly proportioned , when contrasted with the series of Lives into which it was somewhat violently introduced , for the merits of Savage as a poet can give him but a very slender claim to so lengthened a ...
Pàgina xxiv
... language about the lyrical effusions of the fanciful Gray . Even his friendship for Collins could not extort any great approbation of his Odes . Johnson loved Collins , but he had no sympathy with his poetry : and his observations on ...
... language about the lyrical effusions of the fanciful Gray . Even his friendship for Collins could not extort any great approbation of his Odes . Johnson loved Collins , but he had no sympathy with his poetry : and his observations on ...
Pàgina xxx
... language was not such that he could take much pleasure in the masters of Attic poetry and eloquence . But he had left school a good Latinist , and he soon acquired , in the large and miscellaneous library of which he now had the command ...
... language was not such that he could take much pleasure in the masters of Attic poetry and eloquence . But he had left school a good Latinist , and he soon acquired , in the large and miscellaneous library of which he now had the command ...
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... language . But the little work , with all its faults , was a masterpiece . No finer specimen of literary biography existed in any language , living or dead ; and a discerning critic might have confidently predicted that the author was ...
... language . But the little work , with all its faults , was a masterpiece . No finer specimen of literary biography existed in any language , living or dead ; and a discerning critic might have confidently predicted that the author was ...
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