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 vi
... excellence of his writings 225 THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651-1685 . Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and Oxford - Fails as an Actor - Great Success as a Dramatist - Serves as a Cornet in the English Army in Flanders - His ...
... excellence of his writings 225 THOMAS OTWAY . - 1651-1685 . Born at Trotton , in Sussex - Educated at Winchester and Oxford - Fails as an Actor - Great Success as a Dramatist - Serves as a Cornet in the English Army in Flanders - His ...
Pàgina xiii
... excellence will be found in the knowledge of human life which his ' Lives ' exhibit ; in the many admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative without overlaying it ; in the virtue they hold up to ...
... excellence will be found in the knowledge of human life which his ' Lives ' exhibit ; in the many admirable reflections they contain , varying and illustrating the narrative without overlaying it ; in the virtue they hold up to ...
Pàgina xvi
... excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable ...
... excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We know how few can portray a living acquaintance except by his most prominent and observable ...
Pàgina 41
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderOf Cowley , we are told by Barnes , 18 who had means enough of information , that , whatever he ...
... excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power . Petrarch was a real lover , and Laura doubtless deserved his tenderOf Cowley , we are told by Barnes , 18 who had means enough of information , that , whatever he ...
Pàgina 47
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
... excellence . For the rejection of this play it is difficult now to find the reason : it certainly has , in a very great degree , the power of fixing attention and exciting merriment . From the charge of disaffection he exculpates ...
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