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Pagina vii
... write biographical and critical introductions to the poets , the edition would be assured of success . At that time the doyen of English literary men was , and had been for some twenty years , Dr. Samuel Johnson . To Johnson ...
... write biographical and critical introductions to the poets , the edition would be assured of success . At that time the doyen of English literary men was , and had been for some twenty years , Dr. Samuel Johnson . To Johnson ...
Pagina 451
... write a very long poem , in five parts , upon Liberty . While he was busy on the first book , Mr. Talbot died , and Thomson , who had been rewarded for his attendance by the place of Secretary of the Briefs , pays in the initial lines a ...
... write a very long poem , in five parts , upon Liberty . While he was busy on the first book , Mr. Talbot died , and Thomson , who had been rewarded for his attendance by the place of Secretary of the Briefs , pays in the initial lines a ...
Pagina 466
... writer he had this peculiarity , that he did not write his pieces first rudely and then correct them , but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar , that he could not write but ...
... writer he had this peculiarity , that he did not write his pieces first rudely and then correct them , but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar , that he could not write but ...
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JOHN MILTON | 47 |
EARL OF ROCHESTER | 107 |
JOHN DRYDEN | 113 |
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