Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... manners of the time at all inclined towards a gentle consideration of ' worth by poverty depressed . ' It was hardly more than a generation since the poetry of Dryden had been paid for by the booksellers by bulk alone . ( Cf. note , p ...
... manners of the time at all inclined towards a gentle consideration of ' worth by poverty depressed . ' It was hardly more than a generation since the poetry of Dryden had been paid for by the booksellers by bulk alone . ( Cf. note , p ...
Seite xvii
... manner he had ever read . Happily for the sanctity of the deepest recesses of human feeling , that letter is lost . But the wound thus inflicted never healed , and Johnson wrote , in solemn remembrance of his wife , some words which ...
... manner he had ever read . Happily for the sanctity of the deepest recesses of human feeling , that letter is lost . But the wound thus inflicted never healed , and Johnson wrote , in solemn remembrance of his wife , some words which ...
Seite xxi
... manners softened considerably , nor did his real tenderness of heart abate . It is said that of his pension he only spent some £ 70 or £ 80 per annum on himself , the remainder being devoted to some form of charity . It would perhaps ...
... manners softened considerably , nor did his real tenderness of heart abate . It is said that of his pension he only spent some £ 70 or £ 80 per annum on himself , the remainder being devoted to some form of charity . It would perhaps ...
Seite xxx
... manner , ' 2 and Johnson himself came under the operation of this rule . But he knew well the essential constituents of style , as also its ultimate end . That is the best style which best conveys the writer's meaning to the reader's ...
... manner , ' 2 and Johnson himself came under the operation of this rule . But he knew well the essential constituents of style , as also its ultimate end . That is the best style which best conveys the writer's meaning to the reader's ...
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... manners might be safely falsified and the incidents feigned , for remoteness of Io place is remarked by Racine to afford the same conveniences to a poet as length of time . This play is written in rhyme , and has the appearance of being ...
... manners might be safely falsified and the incidents feigned , for remoteness of Io place is remarked by Racine to afford the same conveniences to a poet as length of time . This play is written in rhyme , and has the appearance of being ...
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