Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Հատոր 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... probably was proud of his employment , and went with all the confidence of a young man , found his arguments , and his art of displaying them , made totally ineffectual by the pre - determination of the King ; and used to mention this ...
... probably was proud of his employment , and went with all the confidence of a young man , found his arguments , and his art of displaying them , made totally ineffectual by the pre - determination of the King ; and used to mention this ...
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... probably employed in solitary study , gaining the qualifications requisite for future eminence . How often he visited England , and with what diligence he attended his parishes , I know not . It was not till about four years afterwards ...
... probably employed in solitary study , gaining the qualifications requisite for future eminence . How often he visited England , and with what diligence he attended his parishes , I know not . It was not till about four years afterwards ...
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... probably slow because she was afraid , and Harley was slow because he was doubtful ; he was a tory only by necessity , or for convenience ; and when he had power in his hands , had no settled purpose for which he should employ it ...
... probably slow because she was afraid , and Harley was slow because he was doubtful ; he was a tory only by necessity , or for convenience ; and when he had power in his hands , had no settled purpose for which he should employ it ...
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... probably believed himself , that by his interposition many Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many petitions which he cannot grant , that he ...
... probably believed himself , that by his interposition many Whigs of merit , and among them Addison and Congreve , were continued in their places . But every man of known influence has so many petitions which he cannot grant , that he ...
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... probably to came into the hand of Swift in the l ii . p . 3 . from which they both a second , which only reconcileable ; he told at move along its pages , or describes them , and of whic expectations and disapr bourhood , the alterna ...
... probably to came into the hand of Swift in the l ii . p . 3 . from which they both a second , which only reconcileable ; he told at move along its pages , or describes them , and of whic expectations and disapr bourhood , the alterna ...
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Էջ 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Էջ 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
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Էջ 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
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Էջ 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
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Էջ 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
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