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Pàgina xiii
... sense of the efficacy of 1 religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ' ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he hoped that the Lives were so ...
... sense of the efficacy of 1 religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ' ought to be [ and by implication is not ] thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he hoped that the Lives were so ...
Pàgina xv
... sense of pleasure . ' ' The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been all born ; we have ...
... sense of pleasure . ' ' The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises and delights . ' Hence the radical defect of almost all occasional poetry . We have been all born ; we have ...
Pàgina xxi
... sense of readers un- corrupted with literary prejudices approves of Lycidas , and Johnson roundly declares that its diction is harsh , its rhymes uncertain , and its numbers unpleasing . The common sense of readers uncorrupted with ...
... sense of readers un- corrupted with literary prejudices approves of Lycidas , and Johnson roundly declares that its diction is harsh , its rhymes uncertain , and its numbers unpleasing . The common sense of readers uncorrupted with ...
Pàgina xxii
... sense informs his observations on Dryden's conversion to Popery ! What keen insight , what humane understanding , animate his comments on Addison's occasional propensity to the bottle ! With what consummate tact does he contrive to ...
... sense informs his observations on Dryden's conversion to Popery ! What keen insight , what humane understanding , animate his comments on Addison's occasional propensity to the bottle ! With what consummate tact does he contrive to ...
Pàgina xxv
... lines without partaking something of the glow and the gusto which Johnson infused into them ; and he must be a sour and unthinking bigot , with as little sense of humour as of justice , who THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxv.
... lines without partaking something of the glow and the gusto which Johnson infused into them ; and he must be a sour and unthinking bigot , with as little sense of humour as of justice , who THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxv.
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