The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xiii
... thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he hoped that the Lives were so written as to ' tend to the promotion of piety . ' True , he goes out of his way to compliment his favourite Richardson upon having excelled Rowe ...
... thought equivalent to many other excellencies . ' True , he hoped that the Lives were so written as to ' tend to the promotion of piety . ' True , he goes out of his way to compliment his favourite Richardson upon having excelled Rowe ...
Pàgina xxii
... thought Boswell ) , thus much at any rate is certain , that here is something better than a ' dull collection of theorems , ' something more satisfying than a ' rude detection of faults such as the censor was not able to have committed ...
... thought Boswell ) , thus much at any rate is certain , that here is something better than a ' dull collection of theorems , ' something more satisfying than a ' rude detection of faults such as the censor was not able to have committed ...
Pàgina xxiv
... thought liberty ; a zeal which sometimes disguises from the world , and not rarely from the mind which it possesses , an envious desire of plundering wealth or degrading greatness ; and of which the immediate tendency is innovation and ...
... thought liberty ; a zeal which sometimes disguises from the world , and not rarely from the mind which it possesses , an envious desire of plundering wealth or degrading greatness ; and of which the immediate tendency is innovation and ...
Pàgina xxv
... thought woman made only for obedience , and man only for rebellion . ' He must indeed be a cold - blooded and lethargic Tory who can read these lines without partaking something of the glow and the gusto which Johnson infused into them ...
... thought woman made only for obedience , and man only for rebellion . ' He must indeed be a cold - blooded and lethargic Tory who can read these lines without partaking something of the glow and the gusto which Johnson infused into them ...
Pàgina xxx
... thought . How thin , how savourless , how unsatisfying , how commonplace , seem the speculations of the earlier writer ! How robust , how manly , how imposing , those of the later ! No ; Addison for patches , for hoops , for the ...
... thought . How thin , how savourless , how unsatisfying , how commonplace , seem the speculations of the earlier writer ! How robust , how manly , how imposing , those of the later ! No ; Addison for patches , for hoops , for the ...
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