The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina x
... discovering the date of anybody's birth , and will exalt with the name of biography two swelling volumes composed in equal parts of parish register , Stationers ' Hall , charter chest , and Somerset House . Johnson , on the contrary ...
... discovering the date of anybody's birth , and will exalt with the name of biography two swelling volumes composed in equal parts of parish register , Stationers ' Hall , charter chest , and Somerset House . Johnson , on the contrary ...
Pàgina xxiii
... discovered that distress was not a proper subject for merriment , or topic of invective . He was then able to discern that , if misery be the effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and if of ...
... discovered that distress was not a proper subject for merriment , or topic of invective . He was then able to discern that , if misery be the effect of virtue , it ought to be reverenced ; if of ill - fortune , to be pitied ; and if of ...
Pàgina xxvi
... discovered in his vocabulary a vicious partiality for terms which , long after our speech had been fixed , were borrowed from Greek and Latin , and which , therefore , even when lawfully naturalised , must be considered as born aliens ...
... discovered in his vocabulary a vicious partiality for terms which , long after our speech had been fixed , were borrowed from Greek and Latin , and which , therefore , even when lawfully naturalised , must be considered as born aliens ...
Pàgina 9
... discovered . How far he complied with the men in power is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets , or assisted them by intelligence , or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet ...
... discovered . How far he complied with the men in power is to be inquired before he can be blamed . It is not said that he told them any secrets , or assisted them by intelligence , or any other act . If he only promised to be quiet ...
Pàgina 11
... discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man perhaps has a ...
... discovered , cannot be known . He that misses his end will never be as much pleased as he that attains it , even when he can impute no part of his failure to himself ; and when the end is to please the multitude , no man perhaps has a ...
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