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 xvii
... produced thrice as his authority in his Lives of Addison and Swift . Dr. Hawkesworth he acknowledges as his authority for an anecdote of modest Foster ( no common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in support of what he ...
... produced thrice as his authority in his Lives of Addison and Swift . Dr. Hawkesworth he acknowledges as his authority for an anecdote of modest Foster ( no common man ) . He draws at times on booksellers of name in support of what he ...
Pàgina xxxviii
... produced no important work ; but he was not , and indeed could not be , idle . The fame of his abilities and learning continued to grow . Warburton pronounced him a man of parts and genius ; and the praise of Warburton was then no light ...
... produced no important work ; but he was not , and indeed could not be , idle . The fame of his abilities and learning continued to grow . Warburton pronounced him a man of parts and genius ; and the praise of Warburton was then no light ...
Pàgina xlv
... produced a change in Johnson's whole way of life . For the first time since his boyhood he no longer felt the daily goad urging him to the daily toil . He was at liberty , after thirty years of anxiety and drudgery , to indulge his ...
... produced a change in Johnson's whole way of life . For the first time since his boyhood he no longer felt the daily goad urging him to the daily toil . He was at liberty , after thirty years of anxiety and drudgery , to indulge his ...
Pàgina xlvii
... produced in forty - eight hours , if he had worked as he worked on the Life of Savage and on Rasselas . But , though bis pen was now idle , his tongue was active . The influence exercised by his conversation , directly upon those with ...
... produced in forty - eight hours , if he had worked as he worked on the Life of Savage and on Rasselas . But , though bis pen was now idle , his tongue was active . The influence exercised by his conversation , directly upon those with ...
Pàgina liii
... produced the Dictionary and the Rambler were beginning to feel the effect of time and of disease , and that the old man would best consult his credit by writing no more . But this was a great mistake . Johnson had failed , not because ...
... produced the Dictionary and the Rambler were beginning to feel the effect of time and of disease , and that the old man would best consult his credit by writing no more . But this was a great mistake . Johnson had failed , not because ...
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