The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, Volum 1Methuen, 1896 |
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Pàgina vii
... least as much to a naturally retentive memory and a fixed habit of desultory read- ing as to any of his schoolmasters that , upon proceeding to Pembroke College , Oxford , in 1728 he was the best qualified for the University ' that Dr ...
... least as much to a naturally retentive memory and a fixed habit of desultory read- ing as to any of his schoolmasters that , upon proceeding to Pembroke College , Oxford , in 1728 he was the best qualified for the University ' that Dr ...
Pàgina xi
... least , acquiesced in the exclusion of , every writer of prior date to Waller ? Or what of the insensibility which spurned at Chevy Chase ? ( Though , in truth , to praise that ballad as Addison praised it is to the full as wrong ...
... least , acquiesced in the exclusion of , every writer of prior date to Waller ? Or what of the insensibility which spurned at Chevy Chase ? ( Though , in truth , to praise that ballad as Addison praised it is to the full as wrong ...
Pàgina xii
... least , explain by a consideration of the general canons of criticism disclosed in the Lives . Criticism , then , according to Johnson , is not a matter of hard and fast rule . It is essentially a matter of perception , not of principle ...
... least , explain by a consideration of the general canons of criticism disclosed in the Lives . Criticism , then , according to Johnson , is not a matter of hard and fast rule . It is essentially a matter of perception , not of principle ...
Pàgina xiii
... least ' promote no other purposes than those of virtue , ' being ' written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ́ought to be [ and by implication is not ] ...
... least ' promote no other purposes than those of virtue , ' being ' written with a very strong sense of the efficacy of religion ' : which he parenthetically and almost half - heartedly remarks , ́ought to be [ and by implication is not ] ...
Pàgina xv
... least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike such trifles , do not ' presuppose an accidental or ...
... least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty , the plaything of fashion , and the amusement of a day . ' In works , then , which , unlike such trifles , do not ' presuppose an accidental or ...
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