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 xvi
... persons , is the great impediment of biography . History may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge , which is growing every day less , and in a short time is lost for ever ...
... persons , is the great impediment of biography . History may be formed from permanent monuments and records ; but Lives can only be written from personal knowledge , which is growing every day less , and in a short time is lost for ever ...
Pàgina xvii
... persons from whom he derived it . Thus we find him citing his father , an old bookseller , in illustration of the sale of ' Absalom and Achitophel , ' and the characteristic story he has given of the preaching of Burnet and Sprat . His ...
... persons from whom he derived it . Thus we find him citing his father , an old bookseller , in illustration of the sale of ' Absalom and Achitophel , ' and the characteristic story he has given of the preaching of Burnet and Sprat . His ...
Pàgina xxxi
... person placed a new pair at his door ; but he spurned them away in a fury . Distress made him , not servile , but reckless and ungovernable . No opulent gentleman commoner , panting for one - and - twenty , could have treated the ...
... person placed a new pair at his door ; but he spurned them away in a fury . Distress made him , not servile , but reckless and ungovernable . No opulent gentleman commoner , panting for one - and - twenty , could have treated the ...
Pàgina xxxii
... person , unpolished manners , and squalid garb , moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or to disgust . At Lichfield , however , Johnson could find no way of earning a livelihood . He became usher of a ...
... person , unpolished manners , and squalid garb , moved many of the petty aristocracy of the neighbourhood to laughter or to disgust . At Lichfield , however , Johnson could find no way of earning a livelihood . He became usher of a ...
Pàgina xxxiii
... person and of her manners ; and when , long after her decease , he had occasion to mention her , he exclaimed , with a tenderness half ludicrous , half pathetic , · Pretty creature ! " His marriage made it necessary for him to exert ...
... person and of her manners ; and when , long after her decease , he had occasion to mention her , he exclaimed , with a tenderness half ludicrous , half pathetic , · Pretty creature ! " His marriage made it necessary for him to exert ...
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