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 vi
... play - Endeavours to refine the English 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 ...
... play - Endeavours to refine the English 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 ...
Pàgina xlvi
... play after play without finding one happy conjectural emendation , or one ingenious and satisfactory explanation of a passage which had baffled preceding commentators . Johnson had , in his Prospectus , told the world that he was ...
... play after play without finding one happy conjectural emendation , or one ingenious and satisfactory explanation of a passage which had baffled preceding commentators . Johnson had , in his Prospectus , told the world that he was ...
Pàgina xlvii
... play that was extant . But it never seems to have occurred to him that this was a necessary preparation for the work which he had undertaken . He would doubtless have admitted that it would be the height of absurdity in a man who was ...
... play that was extant . But it never seems to have occurred to him that this was a necessary preparation for the work which he had undertaken . He would doubtless have admitted that it would be the height of absurdity in a man who was ...
Pàgina 47
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
... play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates himself in his preface , by observing how ...
Pàgina 48
... play : Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke24 Or printed ...
... play : Every one gave him so good a report , That Apollo gave heed to all he could say : Nor would he have had , ' tis thought , a rebuke , Unless he had done some notable folly ; Writ verses unjustly in praise of Sam Tuke24 Or printed ...
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