The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1881 - 463 էջ |
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... called , at any rate , a man of letters of the first class , and the greatest power in English letters during the eighteenth century . And in his Lives of the Poets , in this mature and most characteristic work , not finished until 1781 ...
... called , at any rate , a man of letters of the first class , and the greatest power in English letters during the eighteenth century . And in his Lives of the Poets , in this mature and most characteristic work , not finished until 1781 ...
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... called an inconsiderable or inefficacious one . We should take care not to imperil its acquisition by refusing to trust to it in its simplicity , by being eager to add , set right , and annotate . It is much to secure the reading , by ...
... called an inconsiderable or inefficacious one . We should take care not to imperil its acquisition by refusing to trust to it in its simplicity , by being eager to add , set right , and annotate . It is much to secure the reading , by ...
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... called to a great historic life , and with powerful interests and gifts either social or practical , were sure to feel the need of having a sound prose of their own , and to bring such a prose forth . They brought it forth in the ...
... called to a great historic life , and with powerful interests and gifts either social or practical , were sure to feel the need of having a sound prose of their own , and to bring such a prose forth . They brought it forth in the ...
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... called her , was the most beautiful , graceful , and accomplished of her sex . That his admiration was un- feigned cannot be doubted ; for she was as poor as himself . She accepted , with a readiness which did her little honour , the ...
... called her , was the most beautiful , graceful , and accomplished of her sex . That his admiration was un- feigned cannot be doubted ; for she was as poor as himself . She accepted , with a readiness which did her little honour , the ...
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... called his Titty , well qualified to make provision for the comfort of young gentlemen . David Garrick , who was one of the pupils , used many years later , to throw the best company of London into convulsions of laughter by mimicking ...
... called his Titty , well qualified to make provision for the comfort of young gentlemen . David Garrick , who was one of the pupils , used many years later , to throw the best company of London into convulsions of laughter by mimicking ...
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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.