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Pagina xx
And so the little lives , and little prefaces ' outsoared and outlasted the occasion
of their making ; and the man who , ten years earlier , thought he had already
done his part as a writer ' gave to English criticism one of its greatest
masterpieces .
And so the little lives , and little prefaces ' outsoared and outlasted the occasion
of their making ; and the man who , ten years earlier , thought he had already
done his part as a writer ' gave to English criticism one of its greatest
masterpieces .
Pagina xxi
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITIONS The Works of the most Eminent English
Poets , with Prefaces , Biographical and Critical , by Samuel Johnson , LL . D . (
1779 - 81 ) , issued later separately as Lives of the most Eminent English Poets ...
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY EDITIONS The Works of the most Eminent English
Poets , with Prefaces , Biographical and Critical , by Samuel Johnson , LL . D . (
1779 - 81 ) , issued later separately as Lives of the most Eminent English Poets ...
Pagina 157
So slight and so scanty is the knowledge which I have been able to collect
concerning the private life and domestic manners of a man whom every English
generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet . Dryden may be ...
So slight and so scanty is the knowledge which I have been able to collect
concerning the private life and domestic manners of a man whom every English
generation must mention with reverence as a critic and a poet . Dryden may be ...
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JOHN MILTON | 47 |
EARL OF ROCHESTER | 107 |
JOSEPH ADDISON | 197 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Lives of the English Poets: A Selection Everyman's classics Everyman's library |
| Auteur | Samuel Johnson |
| Redacteur | John Wain |
| Bijdrager | John Wain |
| Uitgever | Dent, 1975 |
| ISBN | 0460157701, 9780460157704 |
| Lengte | 470 pagina's |
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