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 ix
... pleased with the offer , and undertook to write what he describes in a letter to Boswell as a little Lives and little Prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets . " The Edinburgh collection thus dreaded by the London trade was ...
... pleased with the offer , and undertook to write what he describes in a letter to Boswell as a little Lives and little Prefaces to a little edition of the English Poets . " The Edinburgh collection thus dreaded by the London trade was ...
Pàgina x
... pleased to inform me whether among Mr. Baker's MSS . , or anywhere else at Cambridge , any materials are to be found . If any such collection can be gleaned , I doubt not your willingness to direct our search , and will tell the ...
... pleased to inform me whether among Mr. Baker's MSS . , or anywhere else at Cambridge , any materials are to be found . If any such collection can be gleaned , I doubt not your willingness to direct our search , and will tell the ...
Pàgina xxii
... pleased to determine .-- I am , & c . 66 SAM . JOHNSON . " " TO LORD WESTCOTE . “ Bolt Court , Fleet Street , July 28 , 1780 . “ MY LORD , “ I wish it had been convenient to have had that done which I proposed . I shall certainly not ...
... pleased to determine .-- I am , & c . 66 SAM . JOHNSON . " " TO LORD WESTCOTE . “ Bolt Court , Fleet Street , July 28 , 1780 . “ MY LORD , “ I wish it had been convenient to have had that done which I proposed . I shall certainly not ...
Pàgina xliii
... pleased with their bargain ; for the book was Rasselas . The success of Rasselas was great , though such ladies as Miss Lydia Languish must have been grievously disappoiuted when they found that the new volume from the circulating ...
... pleased with their bargain ; for the book was Rasselas . The success of Rasselas was great , though such ladies as Miss Lydia Languish must have been grievously disappoiuted when they found that the new volume from the circulating ...
Pàgina lii
... pleased . But some foolish and ignorant Scotchmen were moved to anger by a little unpalatable truth which was mingled with much eulogy , and assailed him whom they chose to consider as the enemy of their country with libels much more ...
... pleased . But some foolish and ignorant Scotchmen were moved to anger by a little unpalatable truth which was mingled with much eulogy , and assailed him whom they chose to consider as the enemy of their country with libels much more ...
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