Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Količina 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... public trial . Swift said of this letter to Stella , February 1st , 1712 , " " Tis finely written , I assure you . " S. S. vol . iv . pp . 81-98 . Forster , p . 358 . III . с lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as SWIFT .
... public trial . Swift said of this letter to Stella , February 1st , 1712 , " " Tis finely written , I assure you . " S. S. vol . iv . pp . 81-98 . Forster , p . 358 . III . с lamented as natural , which he applauded in himself as SWIFT .
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... public ; but the prudential fears of his friends probably interfered to prevent its then seeing the light . In 1758 , a nameless editor of opposite political principles gave the volume to the press , with a preface , in which he ...
... public ; but the prudential fears of his friends probably interfered to prevent its then seeing the light . In 1758 , a nameless editor of opposite political principles gave the volume to the press , with a preface , in which he ...
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... public convenience , offensive only , as so many Irish measures have been , in the way in which it was enforced . Ireland was already paying a large pension to the so - called Duchess of Munster ( Lady Kendal ) , and that the profits of ...
... public convenience , offensive only , as so many Irish measures have been , in the way in which it was enforced . Ireland was already paying a large pension to the so - called Duchess of Munster ( Lady Kendal ) , and that the profits of ...
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... public to swell his volume with verses taken from a work that is in the hands of almost every reader . " And in the Preface to the same volume , he describes himself . p . xii . , as “ the Annotator , in part upon the Iliad , and ...
... public to swell his volume with verses taken from a work that is in the hands of almost every reader . " And in the Preface to the same volume , he describes himself . p . xii . , as “ the Annotator , in part upon the Iliad , and ...
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... public road , described by Pope as- “ A little house with trees a row , And like its master , very low . " The house has been rebuilt , but Pope's study is preserved . * The improbability of this story is insisted on by Mr. Caruthers ...
... public road , described by Pope as- “ A little house with trees a row , And like its master , very low . " The house has been rebuilt , but Pope's study is preserved . * The improbability of this story is insisted on by Mr. Caruthers ...
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Aaron Hill Addison afterwards Akenside Ambrose Philips appeared blank verse Bolingbroke Boswell's Johnson Broome called censure character criticism CUNNINGHAM death delight diction died Dryden Dunciad Edited elegance endeavoured English Engravings Epistle epitaph Essay Essay on Criticism excellence father favour Forster friendship genius History Homer honour Iliad Illustrations Ireland Jonathan Swift kind King labour Lady late Latin learning Letters lines lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lyttelton Mallet mind Miscellanies nature never Night Thoughts numbers original Oxford perhaps Philips Pindar pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's Portraits praise printed prose publick published reader remarks revised rhyme S. S. vol satire says Scriblerus Club seems shew soon supposed supr Swift Tatler Thomson tion told tragedy Trans Translated verses volume Walpole Warburton William Hazlitt write written wrote Young
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Stran 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Stran 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Stran 18 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Stran 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Stran 23 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5*. each. Life of Mary Queen of Soots. 2 vols. 5*. each. Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses. With Portraits. 5*.
Stran 20 - Craven.' With 62 Engravings on Wood after Harvey, and 9 Engravings on Steel, chiefly after A. Cooper, RA 5*.
Stran 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
Stran 5 - CASTLE (E.) Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. By Egerton Castle, MA, FSA With a Complete Bibliography. Illustrated with 140 Reproductions of Old Engravings and 6 Plates of Swords, showing 114 Examples. 6s.
Stran 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Stran 9 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.