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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets
ISBN: 9781108031738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 3 contains the second part of his Lives of the Poets, his last major work. This was a commission to provide short accounts of over fifty poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, ed...
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280,50 zł |
Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope
ISBN: 9781518655289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many classics that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price in an a...
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36,12 zł |
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
ISBN: 9780199229970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the "happy valley" in order to make their "choice of life." By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find contentment. Johnson's adaptation of the popular oriental tale displays his usual wit and perceptiveness; skeptical and...
Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the "happy valley" in order to make their "choice of life." By witnessing the misfortunes and mise...
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50,87 zł |
The Lives of the Poets, Volume 4
ISBN: 9780199284825 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 666 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Johnson himself wrote in 1782: "I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets." Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy.
Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior,... Johnson himself wrote in 1782: "I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets." Always recognized as a...
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1151,00 zł |
Paradise lost, By John Milton, A criticism on the poem By Samuel Johnson: ( epic poem )
ISBN: 9781536860177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by...
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted...
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44,26 zł |
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets
ISBN: 9781108031806 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 10 contains a mixture of items political tracts on taxation and current affairs; miscellaneous short works including book reviews and papers on agriculture, French prisoners of war, and...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, ed...
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354,93 zł |
Lives of the English Poets; Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray &c.: in large print
ISBN: 9783387034400 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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225,56 zł |
The Works Of Samuel Johnson V7 (1823)
ISBN: 9781437348002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia...
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178,15 zł |
Lives of the Poets; In Nine Volumes: Volume 7 - in large print
ISBN: 9783387332414 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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541,98 zł |
Lives of the English Poets; Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope: in large print
ISBN: 9783387038859 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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361,17 zł |
Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century - 2
ISBN: 9781648993374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,73 zł |
Preface to Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781502936899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time.
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be a...
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29,34 zł |
The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes: Vol. IV - in large print
ISBN: 9783387000511 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets
ISBN: 9781108031752 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. This collected edition of his works commissioned by the publisher within hours of Johnson's death, such was his celebrity was published in 1787 in eleven volumes, edited by his literary executor, the musicologist Sir John Hawkins. Volume 5 contains the first part of The Rambler, the periodical published by Johnson twice a week between 1750 and 1752. Modelled on Addison's Spectator, the essays address a wide range of...
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709 84) is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of English literature, as a poet, essayist, moralist, critic, biographer, ed...
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320,58 zł |
A Journey To The Western Islands of Scotland
ISBN: 9781514793176 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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Preface to Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781006324673 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,81 zł |
Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
ISBN: 9783842472655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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228,97 zł |
Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales
ISBN: 9783842447936 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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228,97 zł |
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
ISBN: 9781551116013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Jessica Richard's new edition of Rasselas places the novel in the context of the 18th century European fascination with "the Orient."
Jessica Richard's new edition of Rasselas places the novel in the context of the 18th century European fascination with "the Orient."
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. NOVEL By: Samuel Johnson
ISBN: 9781539351061 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 O.S. 7 September] - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history." He is also the subject of perhaps the most famous biography in literature, namely The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell. The History of...
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 O.S. 7 September] - 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting cont...
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40,91 zł |