Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... fault by standing bareheaded in the market - place of Uttoxeter , ' exposed to the sneers of the standers - by and the inclemency of the weather . ' From his father Johnson doubtless obtained much information which was afterwards put to ...
... fault by standing bareheaded in the market - place of Uttoxeter , ' exposed to the sneers of the standers - by and the inclemency of the weather . ' From his father Johnson doubtless obtained much information which was afterwards put to ...
Seite xiii
... faults in this respect in his own account of the Lives of the Poets . Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste ...
... faults in this respect in his own account of the Lives of the Poets . Some time in March I finished the Lives of the Poets , which I wrote in my usual way , dilatorily and hastily , unwilling to work , and working with vigour and haste ...
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... fault to be avoided being a too great likeness between the two things compared3 ; and at another we find him , in his strong love for the new - born regularity of English numbers , lamenting that there is no fixed rule for the ...
... fault to be avoided being a too great likeness between the two things compared3 ; and at another we find him , in his strong love for the new - born regularity of English numbers , lamenting that there is no fixed rule for the ...
Seite xxix
... faults , and all its peculiarity . During Johnson's long life learning in England began to revive somewhat , a ... fault to be an over - pretentious Latinity . This shows most plainly whenever he has to weave into his web threads drawn ...
... faults , and all its peculiarity . During Johnson's long life learning in England began to revive somewhat , a ... fault to be an over - pretentious Latinity . This shows most plainly whenever he has to weave into his web threads drawn ...
Seite xxx
... fault in Johnson's day . To what extent the common language of everyday life was then considered unworthy the use of a man of literature is strikingly shown in the following anecdote from Boswell : - ' Talking of the comedy of The ...
... fault in Johnson's day . To what extent the common language of everyday life was then considered unworthy the use of a man of literature is strikingly shown in the following anecdote from Boswell : - ' Talking of the comedy of The ...
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