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Pàgina x
... language can boast . ' Such is Boswell's commentary upon the Lives . Later writers have , no doubt , hesitated to concur in this simple and sweeping expression of opinion , and the public has long desisted from ' conspiring to squander ...
... language can boast . ' Such is Boswell's commentary upon the Lives . Later writers have , no doubt , hesitated to concur in this simple and sweeping expression of opinion , and the public has long desisted from ' conspiring to squander ...
Pàgina xiv
... language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it next falls to be considered what qualities contribute to the desired result . Mere prettiness ...
... language of a man who is resolved to think it true himself . : The production of a certain species of pleasure being the object of poetry , it next falls to be considered what qualities contribute to the desired result . Mere prettiness ...
Pàgina xxiii
... ' with which Johnson throughout displays his political convictions . It is good to read that Waller ' sometimes speaks of the rebels and their usurpation in the natural language of an honest THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxiii.
... ' with which Johnson throughout displays his political convictions . It is good to read that Waller ' sometimes speaks of the rebels and their usurpation in the natural language of an honest THE LIVES OF THE POETS xxiii.
Pàgina xxiv
Samuel Johnson. and their usurpation in the natural language of an honest man ' ; or that Akenside ' certainly retained an unnecessary and out- rageous zeal for what he called and thought liberty ; a zeal which sometimes disguises from ...
Samuel Johnson. and their usurpation in the natural language of an honest man ' ; or that Akenside ' certainly retained an unnecessary and out- rageous zeal for what he called and thought liberty ; a zeal which sometimes disguises from ...
Pàgina xxviii
... language , where all seems to be simplicity and ease , and to promise plain - sailing , is readily believed by most men to be within the scope of their capacity . It was the peculiar function of Johnson , whenceso- ever he derived his ...
... language , where all seems to be simplicity and ease , and to promise plain - sailing , is readily believed by most men to be within the scope of their capacity . It was the peculiar function of Johnson , whenceso- ever he derived his ...
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