The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8Pafraets Book Company, 1908 |
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Pagina 23
... expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends him ...
... expected ; yet to him Milton owed his introduction to Manso , marquis of Villa , who had been before the patron of Tasso . Manso was enough delighted with his accomplishments to honour him with a sorry distich , in which he commends him ...
Pagina 30
... expected the Paradise Lost . He published , the same year , two more pam- phlets , upon the same question . To one of his antago- nists , who affirms that he was " vomited out of the university , " he answers , in general terms : " The ...
... expected the Paradise Lost . He published , the same year , two more pam- phlets , upon the same question . To one of his antago- nists , who affirms that he was " vomited out of the university , " he answers , in general terms : " The ...
Pagina 31
... expected all the advantages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , " having for a month led a philosophick life , after ...
... expected all the advantages of a conjugal life . The lady , however , seems not much to have delighted in the pleasures of spare diet and hard study ; for , as Philips relates , " having for a month led a philosophick life , after ...
Pagina 78
... expected that Cowley , whose ideas of excellence were so different from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His char- acter of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His ...
... expected that Cowley , whose ideas of excellence were so different from his own , would have had much of his approbation . His char- acter of Dryden , who sometimes visited him , was , that he was a good rhymist , but no poet . His ...
Pagina 81
... expected . His sister , first married to Mr. Philips , afterwards mar- ried Mr. Agar , a friend of her first husband , who succeeded him in the crown - office . She had , by her first husband , Edward and John , the two nephews whom ...
... expected . His sister , first married to Mr. Philips , afterwards mar- ried Mr. Agar , a friend of her first husband , who succeeded him in the crown - office . She had , by her first husband , Edward and John , the two nephews whom ...
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