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Pàgina xv
... whole compass of English literature , " 299 - Dies April 23 , 1740 , at Bath , 299. 2401 200MAYUNTA JAMES HAMMOND , 1710—1742 cp . 300 Educated at Westminster , 300 - Equerry to the Prince of Wales , 300- His elegies have " neither ...
... whole compass of English literature , " 299 - Dies April 23 , 1740 , at Bath , 299. 2401 200MAYUNTA JAMES HAMMOND , 1710—1742 cp . 300 Educated at Westminster , 300 - Equerry to the Prince of Wales , 300- His elegies have " neither ...
Pàgina xxiv
... whole sum that Johnson , during the remain- ing twenty - two years of his life , drew from the public funds of England , would have supported some Supreme Priest for about half as many weeks ; it amounts very nearly to the revenue of ...
... whole sum that Johnson , during the remain- ing twenty - two years of his life , drew from the public funds of England , would have supported some Supreme Priest for about half as many weeks ; it amounts very nearly to the revenue of ...
Pàgina 7
... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame , by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it cer- tainly has , in a very great ...
... whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame , by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it cer- tainly has , in a very great ...
Pàgina 8
... whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
... whole endeavour : but , unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme , instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses , and very often such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear ; for the modulation was so ...
Pàgina 9
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions ...
... whole mind , and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions ...
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