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Pagina xviii
... poets , — Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists , — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators , than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has distanced all his competitors so de- cidedly , that it is ...
... poets , — Shakspeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists , — Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators , than Boswell is the first of biographers . He has distanced all his competitors so de- cidedly , that it is ...
Pagina xxii
... Poems of Politian . to write for the Gentleman's Magazine . Attachments . - Marries . Edial . David Garrick his Pupil ... Poem . " - He endeavours , without Success , to obtain the Degree of Master of Arts . - Recommended by Pope to Earl ...
... Poems of Politian . to write for the Gentleman's Magazine . Attachments . - Marries . Edial . David Garrick his Pupil ... Poem . " - He endeavours , without Success , to obtain the Degree of Master of Arts . - Recommended by Pope to Earl ...
Pagina 36
... poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographic works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength ...
... poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plentiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographic works , every thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength ...
Pagina 61
... Poems , collected by a person of the name of Hus- bands ( 2 ) , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that Miscellany ... poem will leave it a question for posterity , whether his or mine be the original . " - HAWKINS . ( 2 ) John ...
... Poems , collected by a person of the name of Hus- bands ( 2 ) , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that Miscellany ... poem will leave it a question for posterity , whether his or mine be the original . " - HAWKINS . ( 2 ) John ...
Pagina 71
... poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so early , that the speech of the ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight ( 2 ) , and it was long ...
... poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so early , that the speech of the ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight ( 2 ) , and it was long ...
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