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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 xxvi
... Poets , which hundred ; on this occasion Dr. John- however is not easy , because they son observed to me- " Sir , I have are not to be bought unless you buy always said the booksellers were a also a perfect litter of poets in ...
... Poets , which hundred ; on this occasion Dr. John- however is not easy , because they son observed to me- " Sir , I have are not to be bought unless you buy always said the booksellers were a also a perfect litter of poets in ...
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 , ix . 108. ] In this passage Cowley is perhaps superior to his original ; and the English poet , who was a good bota- mist , has concealed the oaks under a more general expression . ' In his poem of the Garden Cowley writes ( Eng .
... Poets , ix . 108. ] In this passage Cowley is perhaps superior to his original ; and the English poet , who was a good bota- mist , has concealed the oaks under a more general expression . ' In his poem of the Garden Cowley writes ( Eng .
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