The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina x
... expression of opinion , and the public has long desisted from ' conspiring to squander praise ' on Johnson . Yet it is very generally admitted that this work is the finest of his performances ; and though it has been frequently ...
... expression of opinion , and the public has long desisted from ' conspiring to squander praise ' on Johnson . Yet it is very generally admitted that this work is the finest of his performances ; and though it has been frequently ...
Pàgina xvi
... expression . ' To put the matter in another way , as familiar things must be made new , so , to avoid the monotony of a perpetual succession of surprises , new things must be made familiar . He who successfully performs that double task ...
... expression . ' To put the matter in another way , as familiar things must be made new , so , to avoid the monotony of a perpetual succession of surprises , new things must be made familiar . He who successfully performs that double task ...
Pàgina xxvi
... expression in the page of Lord Macaulay , who learned his prose in Johnson's school , and who , to do him justice , never showed a ' vicious partiality ' for a short word when a long one better served his turn . Of this tangle of error ...
... expression in the page of Lord Macaulay , who learned his prose in Johnson's school , and who , to do him justice , never showed a ' vicious partiality ' for a short word when a long one better served his turn . Of this tangle of error ...
Pàgina xxx
... expression by Johnson of a similar train of thought . How thin , how savourless , how unsatisfying , how commonplace , seem the speculations of the earlier writer ! How robust , how manly , how imposing , those of the later ! No ...
... expression by Johnson of a similar train of thought . How thin , how savourless , how unsatisfying , how commonplace , seem the speculations of the earlier writer ! How robust , how manly , how imposing , those of the later ! No ...
Pàgina 6
... expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostenta- tious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect ...
... expression from a secretary of the present time would be considered as merely ludicrous , or at most as an ostenta- tious display of scholarship ; but the manners of that time were so tinged with superstition , that I cannot but suspect ...
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