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 ix
... impudently " called his . When persuaded to promise little Lives and Little Prefaces to a London edition of our Poets , the undertaking , as then presented to his mind , 66 > Johnson tells us , seemed not very extensive 4 * fx.
... impudently " called his . When persuaded to promise little Lives and Little Prefaces to a London edition of our Poets , the undertaking , as then presented to his mind , 66 > Johnson tells us , seemed not very extensive 4 * fx.
Pàgina xiv
... mind habitually well disposed , and prevail over unassisted and unfriended veracity . " " Dictatorial in conversation and confident in his own resonrces , he delighted in argument ; nor was he at times over scrupulous in his manner of ...
... mind habitually well disposed , and prevail over unassisted and unfriended veracity . " " Dictatorial in conversation and confident in his own resonrces , he delighted in argument ; nor was he at times over scrupulous in his manner of ...
Pàgina xvi
... mind , the nice discriminations of character , and the minute peculiarities of conduct are soon obliterated ; and it is surely better that caprice , obstinacy , frolic , and folly , however they might delight in the description , should ...
... mind , the nice discriminations of character , and the minute peculiarities of conduct are soon obliterated ; and it is surely better that caprice , obstinacy , frolic , and folly , however they might delight in the description , should ...
Pàgina xxi
... mind so well principled as his ? The Life of Savage was written when Johnson was a young man , and from the interest of its story , and the admirable manner in which that story is told , is deservedly looked upon as one of the best ...
... mind so well principled as his ? The Life of Savage was written when Johnson was a young man , and from the interest of its story , and the admirable manner in which that story is told , is deservedly looked upon as one of the best ...
Pàgina xxxi
... mind . Before the young man left the university , his hereditary malady had broken forth in a singularly cruel form . He had become an incurable hypochondriac . He said long after that he had been mad all his life , or at least not ...
... mind . Before the young man left the university , his hereditary malady had broken forth in a singularly cruel form . He had become an incurable hypochondriac . He said long after that he had been mad all his life , or at least not ...
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