Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... and accuracy of his knowledge of the English literature of his own century and the preceding one . These Lives first came out , In a letter to Boswell , May 3 , 1777 . in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in INTRODUCTION .
... and accuracy of his knowledge of the English literature of his own century and the preceding one . These Lives first came out , In a letter to Boswell , May 3 , 1777 . in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in INTRODUCTION .
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Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in the volumes which contained the poems . The first four volumes were pub- lished in 1779 , and the rest in 1780. The first edition of the Lives , which ...
Samuel Johnson Alfred Milnes. in accordance with the original plan , as prefaces in the volumes which contained the poems . The first four volumes were pub- lished in 1779 , and the rest in 1780. The first edition of the Lives , which ...
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... original productive power . Another equally funda- mental question arises as to the prime essential of a writer ; and 1.8 1 See note , p . 261 . to this Johnson gives an answer as happily expressed as xxiv INTRODUCTION .
... original productive power . Another equally funda- mental question arises as to the prime essential of a writer ; and 1.8 1 See note , p . 261 . to this Johnson gives an answer as happily expressed as xxiv INTRODUCTION .
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... original , and transplant it by force into the version but what is given to the parts may be subducted from the whole , and the reader may be weary , though the critic may commend ' ( p . 97 ) . Though the allusion here is to transla ...
... original , and transplant it by force into the version but what is given to the parts may be subducted from the whole , and the reader may be weary , though the critic may commend ' ( p . 97 ) . Though the allusion here is to transla ...
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... original of his portraits . So far as a man can be really judged from his own writings Johnson's Lives will be a safe guide to truth . But when his narrative is to be fetched from ' casual mention and uncertain tradition , ' Johnson ...
... original of his portraits . So far as a man can be really judged from his own writings Johnson's Lives will be a safe guide to truth . But when his narrative is to be fetched from ' casual mention and uncertain tradition , ' Johnson ...
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