Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... poetry of Dryden had been paid for by the booksellers by bulk alone . ( Cf. note , p . 291. ) Johnson himself allows 1 that since that time the general conduct of traders had improved . But even yet the manners of the men who had the ...
... poetry of Dryden had been paid for by the booksellers by bulk alone . ( Cf. note , p . 291. ) Johnson himself allows 1 that since that time the general conduct of traders had improved . But even yet the manners of the men who had the ...
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... poetry was written ' at a white heat , ' and passion lends his tones their depth , Johnson never stoops to shriek . What his sorrows have taught him to feel , he writes , and manfully writes his best , snatching a scanty pittance from ...
... poetry was written ' at a white heat , ' and passion lends his tones their depth , Johnson never stoops to shriek . What his sorrows have taught him to feel , he writes , and manfully writes his best , snatching a scanty pittance from ...
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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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... poet what durable materials are to the architect ' ( p . 87 ) . There is , it need hardly be said , no necessity to ... poetry ; for , as Johnson himself was well aware , Pope pro- duced , in his Essay on Man , highly polished verses on ...
... poet what durable materials are to the architect ' ( p . 87 ) . There is , it need hardly be said , no necessity to ... poetry ; for , as Johnson himself was well aware , Pope pro- duced , in his Essay on Man , highly polished verses on ...
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... poetry , and have shown , by explaining longitude , that verse did not refuse the ideas of philosophy ' ( p . 81 ) . Now the principles of poetical criticism are here mistaken ; difficulty of subject does not add to , but detracts from ...
... poetry , and have shown , by explaining longitude , that verse did not refuse the ideas of philosophy ' ( p . 81 ) . Now the principles of poetical criticism are here mistaken ; difficulty of subject does not add to , but detracts from ...
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