Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 1J. Murray, 1854 - 395 pàgines |
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... nature very ridiculous . Johnson was occasionally himself the " good hater he liked he was not favourably disposed towards Lyttelton- and his early dislike coloured the whole of his biography ; for notwithstanding his many virtues and ...
... nature very ridiculous . Johnson was occasionally himself the " good hater he liked he was not favourably disposed towards Lyttelton- and his early dislike coloured the whole of his biography ; for notwithstanding his many virtues and ...
Pàgina xxiii
... nature , guided by a small quantity of judgment , will go far in finding the mistakes and inelegancies of writers . " It is easy to see in what Johnson thought good poetry to consist . He appears to have admired Dryden as much.
... nature , guided by a small quantity of judgment , will go far in finding the mistakes and inelegancies of writers . " It is easy to see in what Johnson thought good poetry to consist . He appears to have admired Dryden as much.
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... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commo- dious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narra- tive ...
... natural desire of man to propagate a wonder . It is surely very difficult to tell anything as it was heard , when Sprat could not refrain from amplifying a commo- dious incident , though the book to which he prefixed his narra- tive ...
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... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation the marvel vanishes : " He was , " he says , " such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules without book . " He ...
... nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation the marvel vanishes : " He was , " he says , " such an enemy to all constraint , that his master never could prevail on him to learn the rules without book . " He ...
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... natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifica- tions . The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it ...
... natural ; it is natural likewise for the lover to solicit reciprocal regard by an elaborate display of his own qualifica- tions . The desire of pleasing has in different men produced actions of heroism , and effusions of wit ; but it ...
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