The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Stone and Kimball, 1896 |
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Pàgina xii
... whole . Other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tedionsness propagates itself . ' And here it may be proper to glance at Johnson's view of the relation subsisting between Morals and Art . That he who was emphatically ...
... whole . Other faults are censured and forgotten , but the power of tedionsness propagates itself . ' And here it may be proper to glance at Johnson's view of the relation subsisting between Morals and Art . That he who was emphatically ...
Pàgina xiii
... whole , in the Lives he is not only lenient to offences against decorum , which without over- niceness he might have visited with severity , but his point of view is quite different from what it had been fifteen THE LIVES OF THE POETS xiii.
... whole , in the Lives he is not only lenient to offences against decorum , which without over- niceness he might have visited with severity , but his point of view is quite different from what it had been fifteen THE LIVES OF THE POETS xiii.
Pàgina xv
... whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike such trifles , do not ' presuppose an accidental or artificial state ...
... whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike such trifles , do not ' presuppose an accidental or artificial state ...
Pàgina xvi
... whole of a book may be tedious , though all the parts are praised . ' Thus , the reader of Johnson's favourite passage from The Mourning Bride , ' feels what he remembers to have felt before , but he feels it with a great increase of ...
... whole of a book may be tedious , though all the parts are praised . ' Thus , the reader of Johnson's favourite passage from The Mourning Bride , ' feels what he remembers to have felt before , but he feels it with a great increase of ...
Pàgina xxix
... whole compass of the Lives , there are , perhaps , half a dozen far - fetched and truly ' alien ' words ; and some three passages or so where we catch the genuine ' Johnsonian ' cadence in the cant meaning of the term , of which one is ...
... whole compass of the Lives , there are , perhaps , half a dozen far - fetched and truly ' alien ' words ; and some three passages or so where we catch the genuine ' Johnsonian ' cadence in the cant meaning of the term , of which one is ...
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