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 xiv
... learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it . ” Indeed he was not always true to himself . When asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to expose the defects of a man with whom he had lived in intimacy , he replied , “ Why , no ...
... learning and genius of Parnell could be debased by it . ” Indeed he was not always true to himself . When asked if it was not wrong in Orrery to expose the defects of a man with whom he had lived in intimacy , he replied , “ Why , no ...
Pàgina xxiii
... 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 and Goldsmith . Gray's little coterie ...
... 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 and Goldsmith . Gray's little coterie ...
Pàgina xxix
... learning . Between him and the clergy , indeed , there was a strong religious and political sympathy . He was a zealous churchman , and , though he qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereign in ...
... learning . Between him and the clergy , indeed , there was a strong religious and political sympathy . He was a zealous churchman , and , though he qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereign in ...
Pàgina xxx
... learning . Once , while searching for some apples , he found a huge folio volume of Petrarch's works . The name excited his curiosity , and he eagerly devoured hundreds of pages . Indeed , the diction and versification of his own Latin ...
... learning . Once , while searching for some apples , he found a huge folio volume of Petrarch's works . The name excited his curiosity , and he eagerly devoured hundreds of pages . Indeed , the diction and versification of his own Latin ...
Pàgina xxxii
... learning , and knowledge of the world , did himself honour by patronizing the young adventurer , whose repulsive person , unpolished manners , and squalid garb , moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or to ...
... learning , and knowledge of the world , did himself honour by patronizing the young adventurer , whose repulsive person , unpolished manners , and squalid garb , moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or to ...
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