Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... 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 . ' 6 For this translation he received five guineas . Such ...
... 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 . ' 6 For this translation he received five guineas . Such ...
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... poem ' London , ' in imita- tion of Juvenal's Third Satire . This poem was purchased by Dodsley for ten guineas , got into a second edition in a week , and made Johnson at once famous . From this poem , how- ever , though Johnson was ...
... poem ' London , ' in imita- tion of Juvenal's Third Satire . This poem was purchased by Dodsley for ten guineas , got into a second edition in a week , and made Johnson at once famous . From this poem , how- ever , though Johnson was ...
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... poem is simply a vent for his hatred of the Whigs , and for his own gloomy fortune . This last , though its expression never falls beneath the dignity of general com- plaint , and has no personal references to himself , is conveyed ...
... poem is simply a vent for his hatred of the Whigs , and for his own gloomy fortune . This last , though its expression never falls beneath the dignity of general com- plaint , and has no personal references to himself , is conveyed ...
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... poem against the hollowness of all ambitions and the faithlessness of all human joys , and his concluding exhortation : - ' Still raise for good the supplicating voice , But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice . Implore his aid ...
... poem against the hollowness of all ambitions and the faithlessness of all human joys , and his concluding exhortation : - ' Still raise for good the supplicating voice , But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice . Implore his aid ...
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... Poets . ' The occasion of this work was the pub- lication by the Martins at Edinburgh of a very faulty edition of the English Poets , which was both deficient and incorrect . Hereupon the London booksellers met and resolved to unite in ...
... Poets . ' The occasion of this work was the pub- lication by the Martins at Edinburgh of a very faulty edition of the English Poets , which was both deficient and incorrect . Hereupon the London booksellers met and resolved to unite in ...
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