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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
... poem , ab- surdly praises Sprat . Addressing Cowley he says : — ' Blest man ! who now shalt be for ever known In Sprat's successful labours and thy own . ' Addison's Works , i . 24 . LIVES OF POETS . I B ' What literary man has not re ...
... poem , ab- surdly praises Sprat . Addressing Cowley he says : — ' Blest man ! who now shalt be for ever known In Sprat's successful labours and thy own . ' Addison's Works , i . 24 . LIVES OF POETS . I B ' What literary man has not re ...
Pagina 12
... Poets , Cowley and Milton 3 , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
... Poets , Cowley and Milton 3 , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
Pagina 19
... poets , of whom in a criticism on the works of Cowley it is not improper to give some account 1 . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew 51 their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolv- ing to ...
... poets , of whom in a criticism on the works of Cowley it is not improper to give some account 1 . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew 51 their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolv- ing to ...
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