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
... things about · Paradise Lost'than Johnson in this Life . His alleged virulence is indeed always more in the manner of his matter than the matter itself . He had no inclination to narrate the events of Milton's career ; and tells us in ...
... things about · Paradise Lost'than Johnson in this Life . His alleged virulence is indeed always more in the manner of his matter than the matter itself . He had no inclination to narrate the events of Milton's career ; and tells us in ...
Pàgina xxvi
... thing to that purpose ; " so says Johnson ; but Cowley wrote told me somů . thing . “ Virgil In the mean time I ray be permitted to relate xxvi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... thing to that purpose ; " so says Johnson ; but Cowley wrote told me somů . thing . “ Virgil In the mean time I ray be permitted to relate xxvi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
Pàgina xxxi
... things , become a Bachelor of Arts : but he was at the end of his resources . Those promises of support on which he had relied had not been kept . His family could do nothing for him . His debts to Oxford tradesmen were small indeed ...
... things , become a Bachelor of Arts : but he was at the end of his resources . Those promises of support on which he had relied had not been kept . His family could do nothing for him . His debts to Oxford tradesmen were small indeed ...
Pàgina xxxvi
... thing indicating more than the ordinary capacity of an old woman — was a prodigy of parts and learning , over whose tomb Art and Genius still continued to weep . Hampden desérved no more honourable name than that of “ the zealot of ...
... thing indicating more than the ordinary capacity of an old woman — was a prodigy of parts and learning , over whose tomb Art and Genius still continued to weep . Hampden desérved no more honourable name than that of “ the zealot of ...
Pàgina xliii
... thing that he ever wrote , a masterpiece both of reasoning and of satirical pleasantry , the review of Jenyns's Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil . In the spring of 1758 Johnson put forth the first of a series of essays ...
... thing that he ever wrote , a masterpiece both of reasoning and of satirical pleasantry , the review of Jenyns's Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil . In the spring of 1758 Johnson put forth the first of a series of essays ...
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