The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina viii
... produced by his old pupil , David Garrick , in 1749 , and ran for nine nights ; while the great Dictionary was announced in 1747 and completed in 1755 . With his manner of living throughout this period himself has made us sufficiently ...
... produced by his old pupil , David Garrick , in 1749 , and ran for nine nights ; while the great Dictionary was announced in 1747 and completed in 1755 . With his manner of living throughout this period himself has made us sufficiently ...
Pàgina viii
... produced by his old pupil , David Garrick , in 1749 , and ran for nine nights ; while the great Dictionary was announced in 1747 and completed in 1755 . With his manner of living throughout this period himself has made us sufficiently ...
... produced by his old pupil , David Garrick , in 1749 , and ran for nine nights ; while the great Dictionary was announced in 1747 and completed in 1755 . With his manner of living throughout this period himself has made us sufficiently ...
Pàgina ix
... produced - at the instigation of the London booksellers , who sent a deputation to wait upon him on Easter Eve 1777 ; that the remuneration which he proposed and they agreed to was two hundred guineas , to which were afterwards added ...
... produced - at the instigation of the London booksellers , who sent a deputation to wait upon him on Easter Eve 1777 ; that the remuneration which he proposed and they agreed to was two hundred guineas , to which were afterwards added ...
Pàgina xv
... producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been all born ; we have most of us been married ; and so many have died before us that our deaths can supply ...
... producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been all born ; we have most of us been married ; and so many have died before us that our deaths can supply ...
Pàgina xvii
... producing pleasure that Johnson insists so often and so emphatically upon the superiority of rhyme to blank verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for dramatic composi- tion , and may be employed by him ...
... producing pleasure that Johnson insists so often and so emphatically upon the superiority of rhyme to blank verse . The latter , indeed , should seem to be the more appropriate for dramatic composi- tion , and may be employed by him ...
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