Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 - English poetry |
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Page xi
... opinion nowhere so clearly nor so authorita- tively set forth as in the pages of Johnson's Lives . And the importance of the opinion is increased by the fact that these judgements were pronounced to a generation peculiarly interested in ...
... opinion nowhere so clearly nor so authorita- tively set forth as in the pages of Johnson's Lives . And the importance of the opinion is increased by the fact that these judgements were pronounced to a generation peculiarly interested in ...
Page 96
... opinion wanders about the world , and some- times finds reception among wise men ; an opinion that restrains the operations of the mind to particular regions , and supposes that a luckless mortal may be born in a degree of latitude too ...
... opinion wanders about the world , and some- times finds reception among wise men ; an opinion that restrains the operations of the mind to particular regions , and supposes that a luckless mortal may be born in a degree of latitude too ...
Page 240
... opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a Preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animadversions ...
... opinion . Dryden vindicated himself in his Dialogue on Dramatick Poetry ; Howard , in his Preface to the Duke of Lerma , animadverted on the Vindication ; and Dryden , in a Preface to the Indian Emperor , replied to the Animadversions ...
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