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 xxxvi
... less decidedly by Falkland and Clarendon than by the bitterest Roundheads , Johnson would not pronounce to have been an unconstitutional impost . Under a government the mildest that had ever been known in the world - under a government ...
... less decidedly by Falkland and Clarendon than by the bitterest Roundheads , Johnson would not pronounce to have been an unconstitutional impost . Under a government the mildest that had ever been known in the world - under a government ...
Pàgina xxxviii
... less extraordinary adventures , a life of him appeared widely different from the catchpenny lives of eminent men which were then a staple article of manufacture in Grub Street . The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety ; and ...
... less extraordinary adventures , a life of him appeared widely different from the catchpenny lives of eminent men which were then a staple article of manufacture in Grub Street . The style was indeed deficient in ease and variety ; and ...
Pàgina xl
... the Spectator . Young and Hartley expressed their approbation not less warmly . Bubb Dodington , among whose many faults indifference to the claims of genius a and learning can not be reckoned , solicited the xl LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON ,
... the Spectator . Young and Hartley expressed their approbation not less warmly . Bubb Dodington , among whose many faults indifference to the claims of genius a and learning can not be reckoned , solicited the xl LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON ,
Pàgina xli
... less numerous , vehemently accused him of having corrupted the purity of the English tongue . The best critics admitted that his diction was too monotonous , too obviously artificial , and now and then turgid even to absurdity . But ...
... less numerous , vehemently accused him of having corrupted the purity of the English tongue . The best critics admitted that his diction was too monotonous , too obviously artificial , and now and then turgid even to absurdity . But ...
Pàgina xliv
... less zealous , cited with delight numerous passages in which weighty meaning was expressed with accuracy and illustrated with splendour . And both the censure and the praise were merited . About the plan of Rasselas little was said by ...
... less zealous , cited with delight numerous passages in which weighty meaning was expressed with accuracy and illustrated with splendour . And both the censure and the praise were merited . About the plan of Rasselas little was said by ...
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