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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Samuel Johnson. OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS , WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORKS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . WITH NOTES CORRECTIVE AND EXPLANATORY , BY PETER CUNNINGHAM , F. S. A. , AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR , BY THOMAS BABINGTON ...
Samuel Johnson. OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS , WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORKS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . WITH NOTES CORRECTIVE AND EXPLANATORY , BY PETER CUNNINGHAM , F. S. A. , AND A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR , BY THOMAS BABINGTON ...
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... observations on the so - called Metaphysical Poets ; nor is it possible to avoid feeling the partial truth of an observation by Southey , that the poets before the Restoration were to Johnson what the world before the flood is to ...
... observations on the so - called Metaphysical Poets ; nor is it possible to avoid feeling the partial truth of an observation by Southey , that the poets before the Restoration were to Johnson what the world before the flood is to ...
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... observed in reply , “ Sir , there is no doubt as to peculiarities : the question is whether a man's vices should be mentioned ; for instance , whether it should be mentioned that Addison and Parnell drank too freely ; for people will ...
... observed in reply , “ Sir , there is no doubt as to peculiarities : the question is whether a man's vices should be mentioned ; for instance , whether it should be mentioned that Addison and Parnell drank too freely ; for people will ...
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... observed in after life , “ forty - eight of the printed octavo pages of the life of Savage at a sitting ; but then I sat up all night . ” Had he continued at this speed , he would have written the whole Life at four sittings , for the ...
... observed in after life , “ forty - eight of the printed octavo pages of the life of Savage at a sitting ; but then I sat up all night . ” Had he continued at this speed , he would have written the whole Life at four sittings , for the ...
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... observation of Boswell , such was the opinion of the friends of Lord Lyttelton , and such is the result at which every reader of the life arrives . It is indeed a sketch reluctantly and hastily put together - reluctantly , because he ...
... observation of Boswell , such was the opinion of the friends of Lord Lyttelton , and such is the result at which every reader of the life arrives . It is indeed a sketch reluctantly and hastily put together - reluctantly , because he ...
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