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Pagina xii
... poetry . This was more than I could bear , for the nineteenth century was almost an object of adoration in my father's house . I ventured to assert that it could boast at all events of one piece of poetry - the steam engine . The roar ...
... poetry . This was more than I could bear , for the nineteenth century was almost an object of adoration in my father's house . I ventured to assert that it could boast at all events of one piece of poetry - the steam engine . The roar ...
Pagina xxv
... Poetry I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an. THE In the first edition ( PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL To THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . IO vols ...
... Poetry I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an. THE In the first edition ( PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL To THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . IO vols ...
Pagina xxvi
... Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general ... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. Underneath , in Johnson's autograph ...
... Poet an Advertisement , like those which we find in the French Mis- cellanies , containing a few dates and a general ... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. Underneath , in Johnson's autograph ...
Pagina 6
... poetry . But V the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power ' . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubt- less deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley we are told by Barnes , who had means enough ...
... poetry . But V the basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power ' . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubt- less deserved his tenderness . Of Cowley we are told by Barnes , who had means enough ...
Pagina 7
... poet of an ' airy nothing , ' and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call the ' dream of a shadow ' . ' It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college or in the 16 bustle of ...
... poet of an ' airy nothing , ' and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have learned from his master Pindar to call the ' dream of a shadow ' . ' It is surely not difficult , in the solitude of a college or in the 16 bustle of ...
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