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... subscriptions afforded him was not less volatile than that which he received from his other schemes ; whenever a subscription was paid him he went to a tavern ; and , as money so collected is necessarily received in small sums , he ...
... subscriptions afforded him was not less volatile than that which he received from his other schemes ; whenever a subscription was paid him he went to a tavern ; and , as money so collected is necessarily received in small sums , he ...
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... subscription to a version of the Iliad , with large notes . To print by subscription was , for some time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first consider- able work for which this expedient was employed is said to have been ...
... subscription to a version of the Iliad , with large notes . To print by subscription was , for some time , a practice peculiar to the English . The first consider- able work for which this expedient was employed is said to have been ...
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... subscription demanded , and that the Tories never put him under the necessity of asking leave to be grateful . " But , " says he , “ as Mr. Addi- son must be the judge in what regards himself , and has seemed to be no very just one to ...
... subscription demanded , and that the Tories never put him under the necessity of asking leave to be grateful . " But , " says he , “ as Mr. Addi- son must be the judge in what regards himself , and has seemed to be no very just one to ...
Contents
From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
From The Life of John Milton 16081674 | 21 |
From The Life of John Dryden 16311700 | 43 |
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison Æneid afterwards allowed appeared Atrides beauties Bolingbroke censure character Cibber confessed considered contempt COWLEY criticism death declared delighted diction dignity diligence discovered DONNE Dryden Dunciad easily effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay Essay on Criticism excellence faults favour fortune friends genius Georgics happy Homer honour human Iliad images imagination Johnson kind knowledge labour language learning letter likewise lines literary live Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel Lycidas mankind ment mind mother nature neglected never numbers o'er observed opinion Ovid panegyric Paradise Lost passion performance perhaps pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's praise published Queen reader reason remarks reputation resentment Richard Savage satire Savage says seems sentiments Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes stanza subscription sufficient supposed thought tion translation truth verses Virgil virtue write written wrote
Bibliographic information
| Title | Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 A Gateway Edition Volume 83 of The World's classics |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Gateway Editions, 1955 |
| Length | 400 pages |
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