Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-DrydenClarendon Press, 1905 - English poetry |
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Page xi
... hands and on the tongues of my young associates . . . . Wordsworth was our scoff . . . I entered Oxford as ignorant of the new School of Poetry as any one well could be . I do not think that I had ever seen a single poem of Keats or ...
... hands and on the tongues of my young associates . . . . Wordsworth was our scoff . . . I entered Oxford as ignorant of the new School of Poetry as any one well could be . I do not think that I had ever seen a single poem of Keats or ...
Page xiv
... hand . The time too came when the novelists ceased to amuse him , and he became aware that he could no longer raise a natural laugh . One result of all this novel - reading , ' he tells us , ' was a total incapacity , lasting for many ...
... hand . The time too came when the novelists ceased to amuse him , and he became aware that he could no longer raise a natural laugh . One result of all this novel - reading , ' he tells us , ' was a total incapacity , lasting for many ...
Page xv
... hand copy of an early edition of the Life . For though when he entered Pembroke College he loved to think that Johnson had been there before him , he had scarcely opened the pages of Boswell since his boyhood until that day . Yet ...
... hand copy of an early edition of the Life . For though when he entered Pembroke College he loved to think that Johnson had been there before him , he had scarcely opened the pages of Boswell since his boyhood until that day . Yet ...
Page xxi
... Hands . Since Birkbeck Hill had been a member of the Johnson Club , serving as Prior in 1891 and 1892 , the meetings at the Cheshire Cheese and elsewhere were a source of much pleasure to him ; he especially enjoyed the visits he made ...
... Hands . Since Birkbeck Hill had been a member of the Johnson Club , serving as Prior in 1891 and 1892 , the meetings at the Cheshire Cheese and elsewhere were a source of much pleasure to him ; he especially enjoyed the visits he made ...
Page xxii
... hands . A few additions and some research , rendered comparatively easy by the precision with which he worked and the good order in which his papers were kept , were alone needed . In the spring of 1902 the health of his wife , which ...
... hands . A few additions and some research , rendered comparatively easy by the precision with which he worked and the good order in which his papers were kept , were alone needed . In the spring of 1902 the health of his wife , which ...
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