The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His WorksJ. & A. Arch, 1795 - 307 páginas |
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... poet with leaves and flow- ers ; for how fhould a child of three years old make regular verfes , and in alternate rhyme ? The internal evidence is fufficient to counterbalance any teftimony that these verfes could be the production of a ...
... poet with leaves and flow- ers ; for how fhould a child of three years old make regular verfes , and in alternate rhyme ? The internal evidence is fufficient to counterbalance any teftimony that these verfes could be the production of a ...
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... poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and manner seemed ftrange to them ; but he behaved modeftly , and fat filent , till , upon fomething which occurred in the course of conversation , he suddenly struck in , and quoted Macrobius ...
... poet , and wrote Latin verses . His figure and manner seemed ftrange to them ; but he behaved modeftly , and fat filent , till , upon fomething which occurred in the course of conversation , he suddenly struck in , and quoted Macrobius ...
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... poet , and . I have great hopes will turn out a fine tra- gedy writer . " How he employed himself upon his firft coming to London , is not certainly known . His firft lodgings were at the house of Mr. Norris a staymaker in Exeter ...
... poet , and . I have great hopes will turn out a fine tra- gedy writer . " How he employed himself upon his firft coming to London , is not certainly known . His firft lodgings were at the house of Mr. Norris a staymaker in Exeter ...
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... poet , and a sharp critic of the times . Boileau had imitated the fame fatire with great fuccefs , applying it to Pa- ris ; but an attentive comparison will fa- tisfy every reader that he is much excelled by Johnson . Oldham had also ...
... poet , and a sharp critic of the times . Boileau had imitated the fame fatire with great fuccefs , applying it to Pa- ris ; but an attentive comparison will fa- tisfy every reader that he is much excelled by Johnson . Oldham had also ...
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... Poets 1753 , " to which the name of Mr. Theo . Cibber is prefixed ; Mr. Stewart , fon of Mr. George Stewart , bookfeller in Edinburgh ; and a Mr. Mait- land : the fixth was Mr. Peyton , a French mafter , who published fome elementary ...
... Poets 1753 , " to which the name of Mr. Theo . Cibber is prefixed ; Mr. Stewart , fon of Mr. George Stewart , bookfeller in Edinburgh ; and a Mr. Mait- land : the fixth was Mr. Peyton , a French mafter , who published fome elementary ...
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