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Pagina xiv
... poets ! I amused my readers because I was first amused myself by the absurdities which I everywhere found in these writers , and by the odd fancies which rose in my mind as I read their works . ' At last the minor poets overwhelmed him ...
... poets ! I amused my readers because I was first amused myself by the absurdities which I everywhere found in these writers , and by the odd fancies which rose in my mind as I read their works . ' At last the minor poets overwhelmed him ...
Pagina xxv
... POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . IO vols . ) the advertisement is dated March 15 , 1779 . 2 [ Mr. Edward Dilly , the book- seller , writing to Boswell on Sept. 26 , 1777 , gives the following account of ' this plan ...
... POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . IO vols . ) the advertisement is dated March 15 , 1779 . 2 [ Mr. Edward Dilly , the book- seller , writing to Boswell on Sept. 26 , 1777 , gives the following account of ' this plan ...
Pagina xxvi
... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. Underneath , in Johnson's autograph , are these words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither ...
... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. Underneath , in Johnson's autograph , are these words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither ...
Pagina 1
... Poets . Boswell's Johnson , iv . 38 . 2 Talking of biography , Dr. John- son said he did not think that the life of any literary man in England had been well written . ' Boswell's Johnson , v . 240. See also ib . ii . 40 . Post , SPRAT ...
... Poets . Boswell's Johnson , iv . 38 . 2 Talking of biography , Dr. John- son said he did not think that the life of any literary man in England had been well written . ' Boswell's Johnson , v . 240. See also ib . ii . 40 . Post , SPRAT ...
Pagina 6
... poets are scarce thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love " . ' This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age ...
... poets are scarce thought freemen of their company without paying some duties , or obliging themselves to be true to Love " . ' This obligation to amorous ditties owes , I believe , its original to the fame of Petrarch , who , in an age ...
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