The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1881 - 463 էջ |
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... , and which does not appear to have at all impaired his intellectual faculties . But other maladies came thick upon him . His asthma tormented * him day and night . Dropsical symptoms made their 1784 ] 39 SAMUEL JOHNSON .
... , and which does not appear to have at all impaired his intellectual faculties . But other maladies came thick upon him . His asthma tormented * him day and night . Dropsical symptoms made their 1784 ] 39 SAMUEL JOHNSON .
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... appear- ance . While sinking under a complication of diseases , he heard that the woman whose friendship had been the chief happiness of sixteen years of his life had married an Italian fiddler ; that all London was crying shame upon ...
... appear- ance . While sinking under a complication of diseases , he heard that the woman whose friendship had been the chief happiness of sixteen years of his life had married an Italian fiddler ; that all London was crying shame upon ...
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... appears to have been very solicitous about his education ; for he was instructed at first by private tuition under the care of Thomas Young , who was afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh ; and of whom we have reason ...
... appears to have been very solicitous about his education ; for he was instructed at first by private tuition under the care of Thomas Young , who was afterwards chaplain to the English merchants at Hamburgh ; and of whom we have reason ...
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... appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , remark what I think is true , that ...
... appear to have been written in his eighteenth year , by which it appears that he had then read the Roman authors with very nice discernment . I once heard Mr. Hampton , the translator of Polybius , remark what I think is true , that ...
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... appears in his writings . His scheme of education , inscribed to Hartlib , supersedes all academical instruction , being intended to com- prise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon grammar ...
... appears in his writings . His scheme of education , inscribed to Hartlib , supersedes all academical instruction , being intended to com- prise the whole time which men usually spend in literature , from their entrance upon grammar ...
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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.