The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina ix
... attention to profit from his labours than any man to whom literature has been a profes- sion ' ) ; that the work outgrew the original design , and became much more than a set of little lives and little prefaces to a little edition of ...
... attention to profit from his labours than any man to whom literature has been a profes- sion ' ) ; that the work outgrew the original design , and became much more than a set of little lives and little prefaces to a little edition of ...
Pàgina xii
... attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . ' Once more : " Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences and errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole . Other faults are ...
... attention . That book is good in vain which the reader throws away . ' Once more : " Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults : negligences and errors are single and local , but tediousness pervades the whole . Other faults are ...
Pàgina xvii
... attention on themselves which they should transmit to things . ' 6 It is because of its greater capacity for producing pleasure that Johnson insists so often and so emphatically upon the superiority of rhyme to blank verse . The latter ...
... attention on themselves which they should transmit to things . ' 6 It is because of its greater capacity for producing pleasure that Johnson insists so often and so emphatically upon the superiority of rhyme to blank verse . The latter ...
Pàgina xxix
... attention of Johnson's detractors , is , it need scarce be said , that wherein he indulges himself in the remembrance ' of Gilbert Walmsley ; than which it would be hard to point to a nobler in the range of English literature . Compared ...
... attention of Johnson's detractors , is , it need scarce be said , that wherein he indulges himself in the remembrance ' of Gilbert Walmsley ; than which it would be hard to point to a nobler in the range of English literature . Compared ...
Pàgina 3
... attention to the ancient models for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed , with a dedication in verse to Dr. Comber , Master of the College ; but having neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned ...
... attention to the ancient models for it is not loose verse , but mere prose . It was printed , with a dedication in verse to Dr. Comber , Master of the College ; but having neither the facility of a popular nor the accuracy of a learned ...
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