Prefaces Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English PoetsJ. Nichols, 1781 - 373 pages |
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... POET S. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . VOLUME THE SEVENTH . LONDON : PRINTED BY J. NICHOLS ; FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W.STRAHAN , J.RIVING- TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T. PAYNE , L. DAVIS , W. OWEN , B. WHITE , 5. CROWDER , T. CASLON , T ...
... POET S. BY SAMUEL JOHNSON . VOLUME THE SEVENTH . LONDON : PRINTED BY J. NICHOLS ; FOR C. BATHURST , J. BUCKLAND , W.STRAHAN , J.RIVING- TON AND SONS , T. DAVIES , T. PAYNE , L. DAVIS , W. OWEN , B. WHITE , 5. CROWDER , T. CASLON , T ...
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... , a Romifh priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly initiated in poetry by A 2 the the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : POPE . 3.
... , a Romifh priest , who , by a method very rarely practifed , taught him the Greek and Latin rudiments together . He was now first regularly initiated in poetry by A 2 the the perufal of Ogylby's Homer , and Sandys's Ovid : POPE . 3.
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... poetry owed much of its prefent beauty to his tranflations . Sandys very rarely attempted original compofition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was confidérable , he was removed to a fchool at Twyford near ...
... poetry owed much of its prefent beauty to his tranflations . Sandys very rarely attempted original compofition . From the care of Taverner , under whom his proficiency was confidérable , he was removed to a fchool at Twyford near ...
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... poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those mafters he tranflated more than a fourth part of the Metamorphofes . If he kept the fame proportion in his other exercises , it cannot be thought that his lofs was great . He tells of himself , in ...
... poetry in a lampoon . Yet under those mafters he tranflated more than a fourth part of the Metamorphofes . If he kept the fame proportion in his other exercises , it cannot be thought that his lofs was great . He tells of himself , in ...
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... poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by propofing fubjects , and obliging him to correct his ... poets he foon diftinguished the verfification of Dryden , which he confidered as the model to be studied , and was ...
... poet , with which his father accidentally concurred , by propofing fubjects , and obliging him to correct his ... poets he foon diftinguished the verfification of Dryden , which he confidered as the model to be studied , and was ...
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