Lives of Dryden and PopeClarendon Press, 1885 - 326 Seiten |
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... 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 the lap of ...
... 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 the lap of ...
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... written by your lordship . To be so distinguished , is an honour , which , being very little accustomed to favours from the great , I know not well how to receive , or in what terms to acknowledge . ' When , upon some slight ...
... written by your lordship . To be so distinguished , is an honour , which , being very little accustomed to favours from the great , I know not well how to receive , or in what terms to acknowledge . ' When , upon some slight ...
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... written in the evenings of a single week , sent to press as fast as it was written , and never again read over for correction . For this work he received £ 100 , and £ 25 more for a second edition . But the hard times in Johnson's life ...
... written in the evenings of a single week , sent to press as fast as it was written , and never again read over for correction . For this work he received £ 100 , and £ 25 more for a second edition . But the hard times in Johnson's life ...
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... written it is so hard for succeeding generations to appreciate . But its acceptance must be qualified by considerations arising naturally from the first of the cautions above given . In literature as in all else , nothing succeeds like ...
... written it is so hard for succeeding generations to appreciate . But its acceptance must be qualified by considerations arising naturally from the first of the cautions above given . In literature as in all else , nothing succeeds like ...
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... written a biography of mankind . The edition followed in the Lives has been that of 1783 , the latest edition in Johnson's lifetime , and one in which he had made a few , a very few , corrections of the inaccuracies of the first edition ...
... written a biography of mankind . The edition followed in the Lives has been that of 1783 , the latest edition in Johnson's lifetime , and one in which he had made a few , a very few , corrections of the inaccuracies of the first edition ...
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