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 xix
... perhaps trace his partiality to another cause . It was the first written of the series , and cost more trouble than any of the others — for he had to turn to books , and read not only Cowley , Donne , and Cleveland , but to elucidate ...
... perhaps trace his partiality to another cause . It was the first written of the series , and cost more trouble than any of the others — for he had to turn to books , and read not only Cowley , Donne , and Cleveland , but to elucidate ...
Pàgina lvi
... perhaps some better feelings , struggled hard against this degrading passion . But the struggle irritated her nerves , soured her temper , and at length endangered her health . Conscious that her choice was one which Johnson could not ...
... perhaps some better feelings , struggled hard against this degrading passion . But the struggle irritated her nerves , soured her temper , and at length endangered her health . Conscious that her choice was one which Johnson could not ...
Pàgina lviii
Samuel Johnson. Poets , and , perhaps the Vanity of Human Wishes , excepted - has greatly diminished . His Dictionary has already been altered by editors till it can scarcely be called his . An allusion to his Rambler or his Idler is not ...
Samuel Johnson. Poets , and , perhaps the Vanity of Human Wishes , excepted - has greatly diminished . His Dictionary has already been altered by editors till it can scarcely be called his . An allusion to his Rambler or his Idler is not ...
Pàgina 38
... perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally ...
... perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity for some certain science or employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally ...
Pàgina 47
... perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame ' by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of ...
... perhaps , has a right , in things admitting of gradation and comparison , to throw the whole blame upon his judges , and totally to exclude diffidence and shame ' by a haughty consciousness of his own excellence . For the rejection of ...
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