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Page 1
... an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have
deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or
ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he
has ...
... an author whose pregnancy of imagination and elegance of language have
deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature ; but his zeal of friendship , or
ambition of eloquence , has produced a funeral oration rather than a history : he
has ...
Page 2
While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called “ Love's Riddle , "
though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This
comedy its of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living
world , 66 ...
While he was yet at school he produced a comedy called “ Love's Riddle , "
though it was not published till he had been some time at Cambridge . This
comedy its of the pastoral kind , which requires no acquaintance with the living
world , 66 ...
Page 4
The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and
effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet
of an " airy nothing , ” and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have
learned ...
The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and
effusions of wit ; but it seems as reasonable to appear the champion as the poet
of an " airy nothing , ” and to quarrel as to write for what Cowley might have
learned ...
Page 7
... and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were
produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of
dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of
COWLEY.
... and sixth , the uses of trees , in heroic numbers . At the same time were
produced , from the same university , the two great poets , Cowley and Milton , of
dissimilar genius , of opposite principles ; but concurring in the cultivation of
COWLEY.
Page 8
... by such alteration as he thought proper , fitted his old comedy of “ The
Guardian ” for the stage , he produced it under the title of “ The Cutter of Coleman
- street . ” It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterward
censured as ...
... by such alteration as he thought proper , fitted his old comedy of “ The
Guardian ” for the stage , he produced it under the title of “ The Cutter of Coleman
- street . ” It was treated on the stage with great severity , and was afterward
censured as ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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