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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... admired by a few eminent men . Richardson , when only five numbers had appeared , pronounced it equal , if not superior , to the Spectator . Young and Hartley expressed their approbation not less warmly . Bubb Dodington , among whose ...
... admired by a few eminent men . Richardson , when only five numbers had appeared , pronounced it equal , if not superior , to the Spectator . Young and Hartley expressed their approbation not less warmly . Bubb Dodington , among whose ...
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... admiration and esteem . Joluson soon had an apartment at the brewery in Southwark , and a still more pleasant apartment at the villa of his friends on Streatham Common . A large part of every year he passed in those abodes , abodes ...
... admiration and esteem . Joluson soon had an apartment at the brewery in Southwark , and a still more pleasant apartment at the villa of his friends on Streatham Common . A large part of every year he passed in those abodes , abodes ...
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... love with a music - master from Brescia , in whom nobody but herself could discover any thing to admire . Her pride , and perhaps some better feelings , struggled hard against this degrading passion . But the struggle irritated her ...
... love with a music - master from Brescia , in whom nobody but herself could discover any thing to admire . Her pride , and perhaps some better feelings , struggled hard against this degrading passion . But the struggle irritated her ...
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... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minuteIt is with great ...
... admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in descriptions not descending to minuteIt is with great ...
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... admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : o . The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phenix Truth ...
... admired than understood , they sometimes drew their conceits from recesses of learning not very much frequented by common readers of poetry . Thus Cowley on Knowledge : o . The sacred tree midst the fair orchard grew ; The phenix Truth ...
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