The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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... reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excel- lence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob ...
... reputation as to excite the common artifice by which envy degrades excel- lence . A report was spread , that the performance was not his own , but that he had bought it of a vicar for forty pounds . The same attempt was made to rob ...
Pagina 13
... reputation in his profession was such , that he grew rich , and retired to an estate . He had , probably , more than common literature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the ...
... reputation in his profession was such , that he grew rich , and retired to an estate . He had , probably , more than common literature , as his son addresses him in one of his most elaborate Latin poems . He married a gentlewoman of the ...
Pagina 67
... , 1683 , and half , March 24 , 1690 , at a price considerably enlarged . In the history of Paradise Lost , a deduction thus minute will rather gratify than fatigue . The slow sale and tardy reputation of this poem have 67 MILTON.
... , 1683 , and half , March 24 , 1690 , at a price considerably enlarged . In the history of Paradise Lost , a deduction thus minute will rather gratify than fatigue . The slow sale and tardy reputation of this poem have 67 MILTON.
Pagina 68
Samuel Johnson. The slow sale and tardy reputation of this poem have been always mentioned as evidences of neg- lected merit , and of the uncertainty of literary fame ; and inquiries have been made , and conjec- tures offered , about the ...
Samuel Johnson. The slow sale and tardy reputation of this poem have been always mentioned as evidences of neg- lected merit , and of the uncertainty of literary fame ; and inquiries have been made , and conjec- tures offered , about the ...
Pagina 69
... reputation and price of the copy still ad- vanced , till the revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with ...
... reputation and price of the copy still ad- vanced , till the revolution put an end to the secrecy of love , and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception . Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with ...
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