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Page xxv
... Poetry I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an. THE In the first edition ( PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL To THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . IO vols ...
... Poetry I was persuaded to promise them a Preface to the Works of each Author ; an. THE In the first edition ( PREFACES BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL To THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS . BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . London . 1779-81 , 12mo . IO vols ...
Page xxvi
... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. Underneath , in Johnson's autograph , are these words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither ...
... Poets for revising the last edition of that work . ' It is dated Feb. 19 , 1783. Underneath , in Johnson's autograph , are these words : " It is great impudence to put Johnson's Poets on the back of books which Johnson neither ...
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... Poets , vii . 137 ] , ubi plus centum amicas enumerat ; qui revera , quum unicam tantum haberet , praenimia tamen verecundia , nunquam illam , licet in iisdem aedi- bus manentem , de amore compellare ausus est ; quod ex certa relatione ...
... Poets , vii . 137 ] , ubi plus centum amicas enumerat ; qui revera , quum unicam tantum haberet , praenimia tamen verecundia , nunquam illam , licet in iisdem aedi- bus manentem , de amore compellare ausus est ; quod ex certa relatione ...
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... Poets , Cowley and Milton 3 , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
... Poets , Cowley and Milton 3 , of dissimilar genius , of opposite principles , but concurring in the cultivation of Latin poetry , in which the English , till their works and May's poem appeared , seemed unable to contest the palm with ...
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... poets , of whom in a criticism on the works of Cowley it is not improper to give some account 1 . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew 51 their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolv- ing to ...
... poets , of whom in a criticism on the works of Cowley it is not improper to give some account 1 . The metaphysical poets were men of learning , and to shew 51 their learning was their whole endeavour ; but , unluckily resolv- ing to ...
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