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
... praise or aggravate his infamy : many temptations to falsehood will occur in the disguise of passions , too specious to fear much resistLove of virtue will animate panegyric , and hatred of wickedness embitter censure . The zeal of ...
... praise or aggravate his infamy : many temptations to falsehood will occur in the disguise of passions , too specious to fear much resistLove of virtue will animate panegyric , and hatred of wickedness embitter censure . The zeal of ...
Pàgina xxxviii
... praise of Warburton was then no light thing . Such was Johnson's reputation that , in 1747 , several eminent booksellers combined to employ him in the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English language , in two folio volumes ...
... praise of Warburton was then no light thing . Such was Johnson's reputation that , in 1747 , several eminent booksellers combined to employ him in the arduous work of preparing a Dictionary of the English language , in two folio volumes ...
Pàgina xliv
... praise were merited . About the plan of Rasselas little was said by the critics ; and yet the faults of the plan might seem to invite severe criticism . Johnson has frequently blamed Shakspeare for neglecting the proprieties of time and ...
... praise were merited . About the plan of Rasselas little was said by the critics ; and yet the faults of the plan might seem to invite severe criticism . Johnson has frequently blamed Shakspeare for neglecting the proprieties of time and ...
Pàgina xlvi
... praise must end . It would be difficult to name a more slovenly , a more worthless edition of any great classic . The reader may turn over play after play without finding one happy conjectural emendation , or one ingenious and ...
... praise must end . It would be difficult to name a more slovenly , a more worthless edition of any great classic . The reader may turn over play after play without finding one happy conjectural emendation , or one ingenious and ...
Pàgina xlvii
... praise of the manner in which he had discharged the duty of a commentator . He had , however , acquitted himself of a debt which had long lain heavy on his conscience , and he sank back into the repose from which the sting of satire had ...
... praise of the manner in which he had discharged the duty of a commentator . He had , however , acquitted himself of a debt which had long lain heavy on his conscience , and he sank back into the repose from which the sting of satire had ...
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