Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 33
... the beginning of the eighteenth century , more than made up by artificial encouragement , by a vast system of bounties and premiums . There was , perhaps , VOL . II . C never a time at which the rewards of literary merit.
... the beginning of the eighteenth century , more than made up by artificial encouragement , by a vast system of bounties and premiums . There was , perhaps , VOL . II . C never a time at which the rewards of literary merit.
Page 39
... century . It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt . Into calamities and difficulties such as these Johnson plunged in his twenty - eighth year . From that time , till he was three or four and fifty , we have little ...
... century . It is well known that they were all four arrested for debt . Into calamities and difficulties such as these Johnson plunged in his twenty - eighth year . From that time , till he was three or four and fifty , we have little ...
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... century , and the earlier part of the eighteenth , English poetry had been in a constant progress of improvement . Waller , Denham , Dryden , and Pope , had been , according to him , the great reformers . He judged of all works of the ...
... century , and the earlier part of the eighteenth , English poetry had been in a constant progress of improvement . Waller , Denham , Dryden , and Pope , had been , according to him , the great reformers . He judged of all works of the ...
Page 75
... century was eminently prolific of such men . Mr. Southey thinks that the satire was aimed at some particular individual ; and this seems by no means improbable . At all events , Bunyan must have known many of those hypocrites who ...
... century was eminently prolific of such men . Mr. Southey thinks that the satire was aimed at some particular individual ; and this seems by no means improbable . At all events , Bunyan must have known many of those hypocrites who ...
Page 78
... century , there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree . One of those minds duced the Paradise Lost , the other the Pilgrim's Progress . pro- JOHN HAMPDEN ( December 1831 ) Some Memorials of ...
... century , there were only two minds which possessed the imaginative faculty in a very eminent degree . One of those minds duced the Paradise Lost , the other the Pilgrim's Progress . pro- JOHN HAMPDEN ( December 1831 ) Some Memorials of ...
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