The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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Pàgina 10
... learning and elocution , " he will never be able to exprefs any thing either " naturally or justly ! " This is not very decent ; yet this is one of the pages in which criticism prevails over brutal fury . He proceeds : " He has a heavy ...
... learning and elocution , " he will never be able to exprefs any thing either " naturally or justly ! " This is not very decent ; yet this is one of the pages in which criticism prevails over brutal fury . He proceeds : " He has a heavy ...
Pàgina 22
... learning , " and all comes into his play . " Twould have done well too if he could have " met with a rant or two , worth the obfervation : ❝ fuch as , 63 " Move fwiftly , Sun , and fly a lover's pace , Leave months and weeks behind ...
... learning , " and all comes into his play . " Twould have done well too if he could have " met with a rant or two , worth the obfervation : ❝ fuch as , 63 " Move fwiftly , Sun , and fly a lover's pace , Leave months and weeks behind ...
Pàgina 33
... learning then almoft new in the English language , and which he , who had confidered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to diftribute copioufly , as occafions arofe . By thefe differtations the publick judgement ...
... learning then almoft new in the English language , and which he , who had confidered with great accuracy the principles of writing , was able to diftribute copioufly , as occafions arofe . By thefe differtations the publick judgement ...
Pàgina 70
... Learning , once made popu- lar , is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of fomething which we have beftowed upon our- felves , as the dew appears to rife from the field which it refreshes . To judge rightly of the author , we ...
... Learning , once made popu- lar , is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of fomething which we have beftowed upon our- felves , as the dew appears to rife from the field which it refreshes . To judge rightly of the author , we ...
Pàgina 75
... learning . He mentions but few books , and thofe fuch as lie in the beaten track of regular study ; from which if ever he departs , he is in danger of lofing him- felf in unknown regions . In his Dialogue on the Drama , he pronounces ...
... learning . He mentions but few books , and thofe fuch as lie in the beaten track of regular study ; from which if ever he departs , he is in danger of lofing him- felf in unknown regions . In his Dialogue on the Drama , he pronounces ...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1801 |
The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volum 2 Samuel Johnson Visualització completa - 1857 |
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