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Pagina 47
His submission to the seasons was at least more reasonable than his dread of
decaying Nature , or a frigid zone ; for general causes must operate uniformly in a
general abatement of mental power ; if less could be performed by the writer ...
His submission to the seasons was at least more reasonable than his dread of
decaying Nature , or a frigid zone ; for general causes must operate uniformly in a
general abatement of mental power ; if less could be performed by the writer ...
Pagina 169
This is no romantick or incredible act of generosity ; an hundred a year is often
enough given to claims less cogent , by men less famed for liberality . Yet Dryden
always represented himself as suffering under a public infliction ; and once ...
This is no romantick or incredible act of generosity ; an hundred a year is often
enough given to claims less cogent , by men less famed for liberality . Yet Dryden
always represented himself as suffering under a public infliction ; and once ...
Pagina 317
Pope was now forty - four years old ; an age at which the mind begins less easily
to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore
the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he lost his ...
Pope was now forty - four years old ; an age at which the mind begins less easily
to admit new confidence , and the will to grow less flexible , and when therefore
the departure of an old friend is very acutely felt . In the next year he lost his ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Lives of the English Poets |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Redacteur | Robert Montagu |
| Uitgever | Folio Society, 1965 |
| Lengte | 420 pagina's |
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