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Pagina xv
... Preface to his edition of Boswell , Birkbeck Hill has described the happy day in 1869 when , ' in an old book - shop , almost under the shadow of a great cathedral , ' he bought a second- hand copy of an early edition of the Life . For ...
... Preface to his edition of Boswell , Birkbeck Hill has described the happy day in 1869 when , ' in an old book - shop , almost under the shadow of a great cathedral , ' he bought a second- hand copy of an early edition of the Life . For ...
Pagina xviii
... Preface he shows us the principle which guided all his editing . ' In my notes , ' he writes , ' my aim has been not only to make every letter clear , but also to bring before my readers the thoughts and the feelings of Hume's ...
... Preface he shows us the principle which guided all his editing . ' In my notes , ' he writes , ' my aim has been not only to make every letter clear , but also to bring before my readers the thoughts and the feelings of Hume's ...
Pagina xx
... Preface to the Letters of Samuel Johnson he had spoken of his hope of completing the main work of his life as a scholar by a new edition of the Lives of the Poets . Of this he had already laid the foundations as far back as 1892 ; but ...
... Preface to the Letters of Samuel Johnson he had spoken of his hope of completing the main work of his life as a scholar by a new edition of the Lives of the Poets . Of this he had already laid the foundations as far back as 1892 ; but ...
Pagina 6
... preface to a subsequent edition , that ' 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 ...
... preface to a subsequent edition , that ' 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 ...
Pagina 7
... Preface , p . 32 . ' Poesy is not the picture of the poet , but of things and persons imagined by him . He may be in his own practice and disposition a philo- sopher , nay a Stoic , and yet some- times speak with the softness of an ...
... Preface , p . 32 . ' Poesy is not the picture of the poet , but of things and persons imagined by him . He may be in his own practice and disposition a philo- sopher , nay a Stoic , and yet some- times speak with the softness of an ...
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