The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 pages |
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... Shakespeare and Ben Jonson which the great Bio- grapher has omitted . Of the Editors ' Annotations some are calculated to confirm conjectures or elu- cidate facts , and others to introduce anecdotes unnoticed by the Doctor , and with ...
... Shakespeare and Ben Jonson which the great Bio- grapher has omitted . Of the Editors ' Annotations some are calculated to confirm conjectures or elu- cidate facts , and others to introduce anecdotes unnoticed by the Doctor , and with ...
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... Shakespeare ; a work which he had projected many years before , and of which he had published a specimen which was commended by Warburton . When one of his friends expressed a hope that this employment would furnish him with amusement 1 ...
... Shakespeare ; a work which he had projected many years before , and of which he had published a specimen which was commended by Warburton . When one of his friends expressed a hope that this employment would furnish him with amusement 1 ...
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... Shakespeare , which is chiefly valuable for the preface , where the excellencies and defects of that immortal bard are displayed with such judgement as must please every man whose taste is not regulated by the standard of fashion or ...
... Shakespeare , which is chiefly valuable for the preface , where the excellencies and defects of that immortal bard are displayed with such judgement as must please every man whose taste is not regulated by the standard of fashion or ...
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... Shakespeare and Cowley . " His manner he had in common with others , but his sentiments were his own . Upon every subject he thought for himself ; and such was his copiousness of knowledge that something at once remote and applicable ...
... Shakespeare and Cowley . " His manner he had in common with others , but his sentiments were his own . Upon every subject he thought for himself ; and such was his copiousness of knowledge that something at once remote and applicable ...
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... Shakespeare , in the Midsummer Night's Dream , " is supposed to ridicule it . " Waller borrows too many of his sentiments and illustrations from the old mythology , for which it is vain to plead the example of the ancient poets ; the ...
... Shakespeare , in the Midsummer Night's Dream , " is supposed to ridicule it . " Waller borrows too many of his sentiments and illustrations from the old mythology , for which it is vain to plead the example of the ancient poets ; the ...
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