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Page 95
Spenser was apparently his favourite ; Shakspeare he may easily be supposed
to like , with every other skilful reader ; but I should not have expected that
Cowley , whose ideas of excellence were so different from his own , would have
had ...
Spenser was apparently his favourite ; Shakspeare he may easily be supposed
to like , with every other skilful reader ; but I should not have expected that
Cowley , whose ideas of excellence were so different from his own , would have
had ...
Page 97
Of his family some account may be expected . His sister first married to Mr. Philips
, afterwards married to Mr. Agar , a friend of her first husband , who succeeded
him in the Crownoffice . She had , by her first husband , Edward and John , the ...
Of his family some account may be expected . His sister first married to Mr. Philips
, afterwards married to Mr. Agar , a friend of her first husband , who succeeded
him in the Crownoffice . She had , by her first husband , Edward and John , the ...
Page 101
When the morning comes , a morning gloomy with rain and wind , he walks into
the dark trackless woods , falls asleep by some murmuring water , and with
melancholy enthusiasm expects some dream of prognostication , or some music
...
When the morning comes , a morning gloomy with rain and wind , he walks into
the dark trackless woods , falls asleep by some murmuring water , and with
melancholy enthusiasm expects some dream of prognostication , or some music
...
Page 135
What more can be expected from a life spent in ostentatious contempt of
regularity , and ended before the abilities of many other men began to be
displayed ? Poema Cl . V . JOANNIS PASSERATII , Regii in Academia Parisiensi
Professoris ...
What more can be expected from a life spent in ostentatious contempt of
regularity , and ended before the abilities of many other men began to be
displayed ? Poema Cl . V . JOANNIS PASSERATII , Regii in Academia Parisiensi
Professoris ...
Page 139
Such à society might , perhaps , without much difficulty , be collected ; but that it
would produce what is expected from it may be doubted . The Italian academy
seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it
has ...
Such à society might , perhaps , without much difficulty , be collected ; but that it
would produce what is expected from it may be doubted . The Italian academy
seems to have obtained its end . The language was refined , and so fixed that it
has ...
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| Title | The Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1 Collection of British and American Authors Collection of British authors Volumes 418-419 of Collection of British authors, Tauchnitz edition Volume 418 of Tauchnitz edition The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1858 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 22 Dec 2008 |
| Length | 414 pages |
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