The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1881 - 463 էջ |
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... nature , - what of these is to be taught , how much , and how ? There is no clear , well - grounded consent . The same with religion . Religion is surely to be taught , but what of it is to be taught , and how ? A clear , well ...
... nature , - what of these is to be taught , how much , and how ? There is no clear , well - grounded consent . The same with religion . Religion is surely to be taught , but what of it is to be taught , and how ? A clear , well ...
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... nature and good - humour of the English people . " It was right that a Life of Johnson himself should stand as an introduction to the present volume , and I long ago conceived the wish that it should be the Life contributed by Lord ...
... nature and good - humour of the English people . " It was right that a Life of Johnson himself should stand as an introduction to the present volume , and I long ago conceived the wish that it should be the Life contributed by Lord ...
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... nature and of human destiny . Such wretchedness as he endured has driven many men to shoot themselves or drown themselves . But he was under no temptation to commit suicide . He was sick of life ; but he was afraid of death ; and he ...
... nature and of human destiny . Such wretchedness as he endured has driven many men to shoot themselves or drown themselves . But he was under no temptation to commit suicide . He was sick of life ; but he was afraid of death ; and he ...
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... Nature had made them of very different clay ; and circumstances had fully brought out the natural peculiarities of both . Sudden prosperity had turned Garrick's head . Continued adversity had soured John- son's temper . Johnson saw with ...
... Nature had made them of very different clay ; and circumstances had fully brought out the natural peculiarities of both . Sudden prosperity had turned Garrick's head . Continued adversity had soured John- son's temper . Johnson saw with ...
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... Nature and Origin of Evil . In the spring of 1758 Johnson put forth the first of a series of essays , entitled the Idler . During two years these essays continued to appear weekly . They were eagerly read , widely circulated , and ...
... Nature and Origin of Evil . In the spring of 1758 Johnson put forth the first of a series of essays , entitled the Idler . During two years these essays continued to appear weekly . They were eagerly read , widely circulated , and ...
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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 200 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Էջ 25 - Prelector of St. John's College, Cambridge. AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON MECHANICS. For the Use of the Junior Classes at the University and the Higher Classes in Schools.
Էջ 306 - To bridle a goddess is no very delicate idea ; but why must she be bridled '? because she longs to launch ? an act which was never hindered by a bridle : and whither will she launch ? into a nobler strain.
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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.