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 xv
... respecting the dates of death of Dryden , Garth , Parnell , and Collins . Boswell complains that Johnson was by no means attentive to minute > accuracy , and omitted when reprinting his Lives to correct EDITOR'S PREFACE . XV.
... respecting the dates of death of Dryden , Garth , Parnell , and Collins . Boswell complains that Johnson was by no means attentive to minute > accuracy , and omitted when reprinting his Lives to correct EDITOR'S PREFACE . XV.
Pàgina xix
... means of information had indeed been great . His first poem ( * London ' ) was admired by Pope , who dragged it out from a mass of anonymous poems by the dunces of the day , and foresaw ( if I may use his own expression ' ) the ...
... means of information had indeed been great . His first poem ( * London ' ) was admired by Pope , who dragged it out from a mass of anonymous poems by the dunces of the day , and foresaw ( if I may use his own expression ' ) the ...
Pàgina xxvi
... ; ' ' so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . has told the same thing to that purpose ; " so says Johnson ; but Cowley wrote told me somů . thing . “ Virgil In the mean time I ray be permitted to relate xxvi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... ; ' ' so says Johnson : but Cowley wrote opinion . has told the same thing to that purpose ; " so says Johnson ; but Cowley wrote told me somů . thing . “ Virgil In the mean time I ray be permitted to relate xxvi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Pàgina xxvii
Samuel Johnson. In the mean time I ray be permitted to relate an anecdote connected with literature and with this book . When my father was mon stone - mason in the town in which Robert Burns died , he made his way on foot to Edinburgh ...
Samuel Johnson. In the mean time I ray be permitted to relate an anecdote connected with literature and with this book . When my father was mon stone - mason in the town in which Robert Burns died , he made his way on foot to Edinburgh ...
Pàgina xxxiv
... means of dining on tripe at a cook - shop underground , where he could wipe his hands , after his greasy meal , on the back of a Newfoundland dog . It is easy , therefore , to imagine what humiliations and privations must have awaited ...
... means of dining on tripe at a cook - shop underground , where he could wipe his hands , after his greasy meal , on the back of a Newfoundland dog . It is easy , therefore , to imagine what humiliations and privations must have awaited ...
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