The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina viii
... perhaps we are a little too apt to dwell rather on Malone's picture of the ragged reporter eating behind the screen in Cave's dining - room , than on the glimpse we get of the same man frequently meeting ' genteel company ' at Mr ...
... perhaps we are a little too apt to dwell rather on Malone's picture of the ragged reporter eating behind the screen in Cave's dining - room , than on the glimpse we get of the same man frequently meeting ' genteel company ' at Mr ...
Pàgina x
... Hence a considerable number of trivial errors , which the diligence of annotators has corrected . Yet most people , perhaps , will prefer Johnson wrong before Peter Cunningham right , and had rather know X INTRODUCTION TO.
... Hence a considerable number of trivial errors , which the diligence of annotators has corrected . Yet most people , perhaps , will prefer Johnson wrong before Peter Cunningham right , and had rather know X INTRODUCTION TO.
Pàgina xiii
... perhaps , more strongly than anywhere else in the admirable Preface to Shakespeare , where he imputes it as a fault to the dramatist that he seems to write without any moral purpose , ' and where he complains that he is not always ...
... perhaps , more strongly than anywhere else in the admirable Preface to Shakespeare , where he imputes it as a fault to the dramatist that he seems to write without any moral purpose , ' and where he complains that he is not always ...
Pàgina xxix
... perhaps , half a dozen far - fetched and truly ' alien ' words ; and some three passages or so where we catch the genuine ' Johnsonian ' cadence in the cant meaning of the term , of which one is to be found in the Waller , another in ...
... perhaps , half a dozen far - fetched and truly ' alien ' words ; and some three passages or so where we catch the genuine ' Johnsonian ' cadence in the cant meaning of the term , of which one is to be found in the Waller , another in ...
Pàgina xxx
... perhaps be further appeased by the reflection , that in the greater part of what has been written in the ' grand style ' since he commenced author , his influence is , in some way or other , plainly discernible . To have had were it ...
... perhaps be further appeased by the reflection , that in the greater part of what has been written in the ' grand style ' since he commenced author , his influence is , in some way or other , plainly discernible . To have had were it ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1 Samuel Johnson,John Hepburn Millar Visualització completa - 1896 |
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