Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on Their Works by Samuel Johnson, Volum 1Derby & Jackson, 1861 - 635 pàgines |
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Pàgina xiii
... admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative without overlaying it ; in the virtue they hold up to admiration , and in the religion they inculcate . He possessed the rare art of teaching what is not ...
... admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative without overlaying it ; in the virtue they hold up to admiration , and in the religion they inculcate . He possessed the rare art of teaching what is not ...
Pàgina xix
... admired by Pope , who dragged it out from a mass of anonymous poems by the dunces of the day , and foresaw ( if I may use his own expression ' ) the greatness of his young admirer . Jolinson considered the Life of Cowley as the best of ...
... admired by Pope , who dragged it out from a mass of anonymous poems by the dunces of the day , and foresaw ( if I may use his own expression ' ) the greatness of his young admirer . Jolinson considered the Life of Cowley as the best of ...
Pàgina xxiii
... admired the Elegy , he respected Gray's learning , and he loved his virtuous life ; yet he had little sympathy with him after all . They were contemporaries who never met . Gray lived with Mason and Walpole , Johnson with Hawkesworth ...
... admired the Elegy , he respected Gray's learning , and he loved his virtuous life ; yet he had little sympathy with him after all . They were contemporaries who never met . Gray lived with Mason and Walpole , Johnson with Hawkesworth ...
Pàgina xxiv
... admired Dryden as much as he could admire any author . He rather sees than appreciates the sublime beauties of Milton . Tickell's * Elegy on Addison ' he silently prefers to Milton's ' Lycidas . ' He does not delight in fiction or in ...
... admired Dryden as much as he could admire any author . He rather sees than appreciates the sublime beauties of Milton . Tickell's * Elegy on Addison ' he silently prefers to Milton's ' Lycidas . ' He does not delight in fiction or in ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... admiration was unfeigned cannot be doubted ; for she was as poor as himself . She accepted , with a ! readiness which did her little honour , the addresses of a suitor who might have been her son . The marriage , however , in spite of ...
... admiration was unfeigned cannot be doubted ; for she was as poor as himself . She accepted , with a ! readiness which did her little honour , the addresses of a suitor who might have been her son . The marriage , however , in spite of ...
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