The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina x
... language can boast . ' Such is Boswell's commentary upon the Lives . Later writers have , no doubt , hesitated to concur in this simple and sweeping expression of opinion , and the public has long desisted from ' conspiring to squander ...
... language can boast . ' Such is Boswell's commentary upon the Lives . Later writers have , no doubt , hesitated to concur in this simple and sweeping expression of opinion , and the public has long desisted from ' conspiring to squander ...
Pàgina xiv
... language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it next falls to be considered what qualities contribute to the desired result . Mere prettiness ...
... language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it next falls to be considered what qualities contribute to the desired result . Mere prettiness ...
Pàgina xxiii
... ' with which Johnson throughout displays his political convictions . It is good to read that Waller ' sometimes speaks of the rebels 6 6 and their usurpation in the natural language of an THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxiii.
... ' with which Johnson throughout displays his political convictions . It is good to read that Waller ' sometimes speaks of the rebels 6 6 and their usurpation in the natural language of an THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxiii.
Pàgina xxiv
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. 6 and their usurpation in the natural language of an honest man ' ; or that Akenside certainly retained an unnecessary and out- rageous zeal for what he called and thought liberty ; a zeal which ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar. 6 and their usurpation in the natural language of an honest man ' ; or that Akenside certainly retained an unnecessary and out- rageous zeal for what he called and thought liberty ; a zeal which ...
Pàgina xxviii
... language , where all seems to be simplicity and ease , and to promise plain - sailing , is readily believed by most men to be within the scope of their capacity . It was the peculiar function of Johnson , whenceso- ever he derived his ...
... language , where all seems to be simplicity and ease , and to promise plain - sailing , is readily believed by most men to be within the scope of their capacity . It was the peculiar function of Johnson , whenceso- ever he derived his ...
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