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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... performance , the work of a superior mind anxious to cavil and find fault : its depreciatory tone has , however , been far from catching , and Gray has had ample justice done him in the general admiration of the world . But Johnson was ...
... performance , the work of a superior mind anxious to cavil and find fault : its depreciatory tone has , however , been far from catching , and Gray has had ample justice done him in the general admiration of the world . But Johnson was ...
Pàgina lv
... performance had surpassed his promise , added only another hundred . Indeed , Johnson , though he did not despise , or affect to despise money , and though his strong sense and long experience ought to have qualified hiin to protect his ...
... performance had surpassed his promise , added only another hundred . Indeed , Johnson , though he did not despise , or affect to despise money , and though his strong sense and long experience ought to have qualified hiin to protect his ...
Pàgina 46
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley.20 Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley ...
... performances of Cowley and Milton be compared ( for May I hold to be superior to both ) , the advantage seems to lie on the side of Cowley.20 Milton is generally content to express the thoughts of the ancients in their language ; Cowley ...
Pàgina 69
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge : Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
... performance Suckling could have brought the gaiety , but not the knowledge : Dryden could have supplied the knowledge , but not the gaiety . The verses to Davenant , which are vigorously begun , and happily concluded , contain some ...
Pàgina 70
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his · Miscellanies ' with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly ...
... performances by their just value , and has therefore closed his · Miscellanies ' with the verses upon Crashaw , which apparently excel all that have gone before them , and in which there are beauties which common authors may justly ...
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