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Pagina 9
... where , on a monument for which , as the “ last piece of human vanity , " he left
five hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti
, Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18.
... where , on a monument for which , as the “ last piece of human vanity , " he left
five hundred pounds , is engraven this epitaph : Sui Temporis Historiam meditanti
, Paulatim obrepens Febris Operi simul & Vitæ filum abrupit , Sept. 18.
Pagina 22
made him one.of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon after gave
him a place in the Pipe - office , and another in the Customs of six hundred
pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally
...
made him one.of the commissioners for licensing coaches , and soon after gave
him a place in the Pipe - office , and another in the Customs of six hundred
pounds a year . Congreve's conversation must surely have been at least equally
...
Pagina 26
... is said to have afforded him twelve hundred pounds a year . His honours were
yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and ,
among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his
Miscellany ...
... is said to have afforded him twelve hundred pounds a year . His honours were
yet far greater than his profits . Every writer mentioned him with respect ; and ,
among other testimonies to his merit , Steele made him the patron of his
Miscellany ...
Pagina 32
He had read , he says , “ but little poetry throughout his whole life ; and for fifteen
years before had not written a hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses
in praise of a friend's book . ” He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a
...
He had read , he says , “ but little poetry throughout his whole life ; and for fifteen
years before had not written a hundred verses , except one copy of Latin verses
in praise of a friend's book . ” He thinks , and with some reason , that from such a
...
Pagina 36
... beaten track of thinking, and are arrived only at the reputation of acute
grammarians and commentators: men, who have been copying one another
many hundred years, without any improvement; or, if they have ventured farther,
have only ...
... beaten track of thinking, and are arrived only at the reputation of acute
grammarians and commentators: men, who have been copying one another
many hundred years, without any improvement; or, if they have ventured farther,
have only ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 2 Volume 419 van Collection of British and American authors Collection of British authors ; no. 418-419 Volume 418 van Collection of British authors The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Uitgever | B. Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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