 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands, while lie considered and reconsidered them. The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his...reconsidered them. The only poems which can be supposed to nave been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication, were the two satires... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
..." He is sard to have sent nothing to the press. till it had lain two years under his inspection. " The only poems which can be supposed to have been...with such regard to the times' as might hasten their pu'blrcation, were the two satires of" Thirty-eight," of which Uodsky told me that they were brought... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very Ions; in his linnd«, while he considered and reconsidered them. The only...which can be supposed to have been written with such rt £" n »•! to the times as might hasten their publication, were the (wo satires of Thirty-tight... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his...hasten their publication, were the two satires of Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he bad left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands, while he considered »nd reconsidered them. The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his...hasten their publication, were the two satires of " Thirtyeight;" of which Dodsley told me that they were brought to him by the author, that they might... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For thss reason he kept his pieces very long in hi» hands, while he considered and reconsidered them....have been written with such regard to the times as m1ght hasten their publication, were the two satires of ," •Thirty. " eight;" of which Dodsley told... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 pages
...observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his...hasten their publication, were the two satires of " Thirty-eight ;" of which Dodsley told me that they were brought to him by the author, that they might... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his...hasten their publication, were the two satires of " Thirtyeight ;" of which Dodsley told me that they were brought to him by the author, that they might... | |
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... none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands, while... 
