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Pàgina xvi
... tion of Pope's Letters , 400 - The Essay on Man , 401 - William War- burton , 403 - The Epistles , 405 - Imitations of Horace , 406 - Memoirs of Scriblerus , 407 - Colley Cibber , 409 - Pope dies May 30 , 1744 , and is buried in ...
... tion of Pope's Letters , 400 - The Essay on Man , 401 - William War- burton , 403 - The Epistles , 405 - Imitations of Horace , 406 - Memoirs of Scriblerus , 407 - Colley Cibber , 409 - Pope dies May 30 , 1744 , and is buried in ...
Pàgina xx
... tion , is so apt to lose character and respectability . While his friend Savage was wasting considerable powers in temporary gratification , John- son was advancing slowly but surely into a higher class of society . The powers of his ...
... tion , is so apt to lose character and respectability . While his friend Savage was wasting considerable powers in temporary gratification , John- son was advancing slowly but surely into a higher class of society . The powers of his ...
Pàgina xxii
... tion , but always prompt , on the slightest contradiction , to launch the thunders of rebuke and sarcasm . He was , in a word , despotic , and des- potism will occasionally lead the best dispositions into unbecoming abuse of power . It ...
... tion , but always prompt , on the slightest contradiction , to launch the thunders of rebuke and sarcasm . He was , in a word , despotic , and des- potism will occasionally lead the best dispositions into unbecoming abuse of power . It ...
Pàgina 28
... tion to the learning and industry of Jonson : but I have found no traces of Jonson in his works : to emulate Donne appears to have been his purpose ; and from Donne he may have learned that familiarity with religious images , and that ...
... tion to the learning and industry of Jonson : but I have found no traces of Jonson in his works : to emulate Donne appears to have been his purpose ; and from Donne he may have learned that familiarity with religious images , and that ...
Pàgina 38
... tion , a temporary dismission into the country , with perhaps the loss of a term . Me tenet urbs refluâ quam Thamesis alluit undâ , Meque nec invitum patria dulcis habet . 2000 brow a Dan Jam nec arundiferum mihi cura revisere Camum ...
... tion , a temporary dismission into the country , with perhaps the loss of a term . Me tenet urbs refluâ quam Thamesis alluit undâ , Meque nec invitum patria dulcis habet . 2000 brow a Dan Jam nec arundiferum mihi cura revisere Camum ...
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