Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton. Samuel Butler. Earl of Rochester. Earl of Roscommon. Thomas Otway. Edmund Waller. John Dryden. John Pomfret. Earl of Dorset. George Stepney. John Philips. William Walsh. Edmund Smith. Richard Duke. William King. Thomas Sprat. Earl of Halifax. Thomas Parnell. Samuel Garth. Nicholas Rowe. Joseph Addison. John Hughes. John Sheffield, duke of Buckinghamshire. Matthew PriorOxford University Press, 1952 |
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Pagina xi
... opinion nowhere so clearly nor so authorita- tively set forth as in the pages of Johnson's Lives . And the importance of the opinion is increased by the fact that these judgements were pronounced to a generation peculiarly interested in ...
... opinion nowhere so clearly nor so authorita- tively set forth as in the pages of Johnson's Lives . And the importance of the opinion is increased by the fact that these judgements were pronounced to a generation peculiarly interested in ...
Pagina 96
... opinion wanders about the world , and some- times finds reception among wise men ; an opinion that restrains the operations of the mind to particular regions , and supposes that a luckless mortal may be born in a degree of latitude too ...
... opinion wanders about the world , and some- times finds reception among wise men ; an opinion that restrains the operations of the mind to particular regions , and supposes that a luckless mortal may be born in a degree of latitude too ...
Pagina 254
... opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of criticism in tragedy ; to which I suspect that Rymer's book had given occasion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy ...
... opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a discourse on the grounds of criticism in tragedy ; to which I suspect that Rymer's book had given occasion . The Spanish Fryar is a tragi - comedy ...
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Lives of the English Poets: Abraham Cowley. Sir John Denham. John Milton ... Samuel Johnson Fragmentweergave - 1952 |
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