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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... obtain what further information public libraries or private individuals might supply to printed narratives . Seeing the scantiness of Murdoch's " Memoir of Thomson , ' he requested Boswell to procure what information he could in ...
... obtain what further information public libraries or private individuals might supply to printed narratives . Seeing the scantiness of Murdoch's " Memoir of Thomson , ' he requested Boswell to procure what information he could in ...
Pàgina xi
... obtained the use of Clifford's remarks on Dryden , which he had long been looking for in vain . Joseph Warton contributed some useful information to the Lives of Fenton , Collins , and Pitt . Malone and Isaac Reed assisted him when he ...
... obtained the use of Clifford's remarks on Dryden , which he had long been looking for in vain . Joseph Warton contributed some useful information to the Lives of Fenton , Collins , and Pitt . Malone and Isaac Reed assisted him when he ...
Pàgina xii
... obtained other favours of a like character , for the progress of his undertaking had brought him to the task of writing the lives of his contemporaries , and of some still younger than himself . He did not care for the new school of ...
... obtained other favours of a like character , for the progress of his undertaking had brought him to the task of writing the lives of his contemporaries , and of some still younger than himself . He did not care for the new school of ...
Pàgina xiii
... obtained an immediate popularity which has continued to our own time , and will certainly continue unimpaired . “ Biography , " says this greatest of biographers , " is “ of the various kinds of narrative writing that which is most ...
... obtained an immediate popularity which has continued to our own time , and will certainly continue unimpaired . “ Biography , " says this greatest of biographers , " is “ of the various kinds of narrative writing that which is most ...
Pàgina xiv
... obtaining victory . He remembered an early observation of his “ Censure is willingly indulged , because it always implies some superiority . " The same seeking for superiority is to be found in the ' Lives of the Poets , ' -- and the ...
... obtaining victory . He remembered an early observation of his “ Censure is willingly indulged , because it always implies some superiority . " The same seeking for superiority is to be found in the ' Lives of the Poets , ' -- and the ...
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