The Lives of the Most Celebrated English Poets, with Criticisms. Extracted from D. JohnsonGalignani, 1805 - 312 pages |
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... thought more than he read . He informed Mr. Boswell , that what he read solidly at Oxford was Greek , and that the study of which he was most fond was metaphysics . In the year 1731 Johnson left the university without a degree ; and as ...
... thought more than he read . He informed Mr. Boswell , that what he read solidly at Oxford was Greek , and that the study of which he was most fond was metaphysics . In the year 1731 Johnson left the university without a degree ; and as ...
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... thought so highly of Johnson's abilities as a dramatic writer that he advised him by all means to finish the tra- gedy and produce it on the stage . To men of genius the stage holds forth temptations almost resistless . The profits ...
... thought so highly of Johnson's abilities as a dramatic writer that he advised him by all means to finish the tra- gedy and produce it on the stage . To men of genius the stage holds forth temptations almost resistless . The profits ...
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... thought fit to declare that they display neither learning nor wit , Pope was of a different opinion ; for , in a note of his preserved by Mr. Boswell , he says , that " the whole of the Norfolk Prophecy is very humorous " . Mrs. Johnson ...
... thought fit to declare that they display neither learning nor wit , Pope was of a different opinion ; for , in a note of his preserved by Mr. Boswell , he says , that " the whole of the Norfolk Prophecy is very humorous " . Mrs. Johnson ...
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... Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands , which he attacked Junius ; and he ever afterwards delighted himself with the thought of having de- stroyed that able writer whom he certainly sur- passed in nervous ...
... Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands , which he attacked Junius ; and he ever afterwards delighted himself with the thought of having de- stroyed that able writer whom he certainly sur- passed in nervous ...
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... thought to contain a suffi- cient reason : if the antiquity of these poems be yet doubted , it is owing more to the conduct of their editor than to the violence of Johnson . In 1774 , the parliament being dissolved , he addressed to the ...
... thought to contain a suffi- cient reason : if the antiquity of these poems be yet doubted , it is owing more to the conduct of their editor than to the violence of Johnson . In 1774 , the parliament being dissolved , he addressed to the ...
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