The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1881 - 463 էջ |
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... school- fellow , who , I understood , had got the command of a small coasting vessel then in the river , and implore his assistance . " These are extreme instances ; but they give us no unfaithful notion of the change in our prose ...
... school- fellow , who , I understood , had got the command of a small coasting vessel then in the river , and implore his assistance . " These are extreme instances ; but they give us no unfaithful notion of the change in our prose ...
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... school of the qualities requisite for a good prose , the qualities of regularity , uniformity , precision , balance . This may have been of no great service to English poetry , although to say that it has been of no service at all , to ...
... school of the qualities requisite for a good prose , the qualities of regularity , uniformity , precision , balance . This may have been of no great service to English poetry , although to say that it has been of no service at all , to ...
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... school to which he was sent he was soon the best scholar . From sixteen to eighteen he resided at home , and was left to his own devices . He learned much at this time , though his studies were without guidance and without plan . He ...
... school to which he was sent he was soon the best scholar . From sixteen to eighteen he resided at home , and was left to his own devices . He learned much at this time , though his studies were without guidance and without plan . He ...
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... school in Leicestershire ; he resided as a humble companion in the house of a country gentleman ; but a life of dependence was insupportable to his haughty spirit . He repaired to Birmingham , and there earned a few guineas by literary ...
... school in Leicestershire ; he resided as a humble companion in the house of a country gentleman ; but a life of dependence was insupportable to his haughty spirit . He repaired to Birmingham , and there earned a few guineas by literary ...
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... school for the poor young poet . The attempt failed , and Johnson remained a bookseller's hack . It does not appear that these two men , the most eminent writer of the generation which was going out , and the most eminent writer of the ...
... school for the poor young poet . The attempt failed , and Johnson remained a bookseller's hack . It does not appear that these two men , the most eminent writer of the generation which was going out , and the most eminent writer of the ...
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Էջ 417 - If the flights of Dryden therefore are higher, Pope continues longer on the wing. If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight.
Էջ 389 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
Էջ 97 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind. When Cowley tells of Hervey, that they studied together, it is easy to suppose how much he must miss the companion of his labours, and the partner of his discoveries ; but what image of tenderness...
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Էջ 417 - Pope had only a little, because Dryden had more ; for every other writer since Milton must give place to Pope ; and even of Dryden it must be said, that, if he has brighter paragraphs, he has not better poems.