The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Nearly Half a Century During which He Flourished, Volume 1G. Routledge & Company, Farringdon Street, 1857 - 300 pages |
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... Poem of " London " -Pope admires it - Remarks and Extracts - Conditional Offer of Mastership of a Country School - Pope's Recommendation of Johnson to Lord Gower 29 46 66 CHAPTER IV . - 1738-1743 . Johnson's intended Application to.
... Poem of " London " -Pope admires it - Remarks and Extracts - Conditional Offer of Mastership of a Country School - Pope's Recommendation of Johnson to Lord Gower 29 46 66 CHAPTER IV . - 1738-1743 . Johnson's intended Application to.
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... poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plen- tiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographic works , everything which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength ...
... poetic talent which afterwards bore such rich and plen- tiful fruits ; for , excepting his orthographic works , everything which Dr. Johnson wrote was poetry , whose essence consists , not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the strength ...
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... Poems , collected by a person of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that Miscellany Johnson's translation of the " Messiah " appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poetics : " Ex alieno ingenio poeta ...
... Poems , collected by a person of the name of Husbands , was published at Oxford in 1731. In that Miscellany Johnson's translation of the " Messiah " appeared , with this modest motto from Scaliger's Poetics : " Ex alieno ingenio poeta ...
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... poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so early , that the speech of the Ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight , and it was long before he ...
... poem to an end ; that he read Shakspeare at a period so early , that the speech of the Ghost in Hamlet terrified him when he was alone ; that Horace's Odes were the compositions in which he took most delight , and it was long before he ...
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... Poets , " in manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from him . - MALONE . 2 The illustration ( p . 26 ) represents the gateway of Pembroke College as it appeared in Dr. Johnson's time . Subsequently to that ...
... Poets , " in manuscript , with scarce a blot or erasure , drew this observation from him . - MALONE . 2 The illustration ( p . 26 ) represents the gateway of Pembroke College as it appeared in Dr. Johnson's time . Subsequently to that ...
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