The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's "Lives of the Poets": With Macaulay's "Life of Johnson".Macmillan, 1878 - 466 páginas |
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... tion . How little it does rule it , every discerning man will acknowledge . Life is short , and our faculties of attention and of recollection are limited ; in education we proceed as if our life were endless , and our powers of ...
... tion . How little it does rule it , every discerning man will acknowledge . Life is short , and our faculties of attention and of recollection are limited ; in education we proceed as if our life were endless , and our powers of ...
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... to turn the conversa- tion to subjects about which Johnson was likely to say some- thing remarkable , and to fill quarto note - books with minutes of what Johnson had said . In this way were 1784 ] 29 SAMUEL JOHNSON ,
... to turn the conversa- tion to subjects about which Johnson was likely to say some- thing remarkable , and to fill quarto note - books with minutes of what Johnson had said . In this way were 1784 ] 29 SAMUEL JOHNSON ,
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... tion of Dr. Paget , married Elizabeth Minshul , of a gentleman's family in Cheshire , probably without a fortune . All his wives were virgins ; for he has declared that he thought it gross and indelicate to be a second husband : upon ...
... tion of Dr. Paget , married Elizabeth Minshul , of a gentleman's family in Cheshire , probably without a fortune . All his wives were virgins ; for he has declared that he thought it gross and indelicate to be a second husband : upon ...
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... tion the parts , accumulate images and sentiments , and treasure in his memory , or preserve in writing , such hints as books or meditation would supply . Nothing particular is known of his intellectual operations while he was a ...
... tion the parts , accumulate images and sentiments , and treasure in his memory , or preserve in writing , such hints as books or meditation would supply . Nothing particular is known of his intellectual operations while he was a ...
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... tion , we have little account , and there was perhaps little to be told . Richardson , who seems to have been very diligent in his enquiries , but discovers always a wish to find Milton discriminated from other men , relates , that " he ...
... tion , we have little account , and there was perhaps little to be told . Richardson , who seems to have been very diligent in his enquiries , but discovers always a wish to find Milton discriminated from other men , relates , that " he ...
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Página 464 - and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning Yet even these
Página 464 - are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here, persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him.
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Página 220 - English writer could supply. Perhaps no nation ever produced a writer that enriched his language with such variety of models. To him we owe the improvement, perhaps the completion of our metre, the refinement of our language, and much of the correctness of our sentiments. By him we were taught sapere &
Página 333 - By the way, what rare numbers are here! Would not one swear that this youngster had espoused some antiquated Muse, who had sued out a divorce on account of impotence from some superannuated sinner; and, having been p—xed by; her former spouse, has got the gout in her decrepit age, which makes her hobble so
Página 53 - Of institutions we may judge by their effects. From this wonder-working academy, I do not know that there ever proceeded any .man very eminent for knowledge : its only genuine product, I believe, is a small History of Poetry, written in Latin by his nephew Philips, of which perhaps none of my readers has ever heard.
Página 355 - me very civilly, and with a speech each time, much of the same kind,' I beg your pardon, Mr. Pope; but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me.—Be so good as to mark the place, and consider it a little at your leisure. I'm sure you can give it a little
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Página 459 - fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior. Gray's Poetry is now to be considered: and I hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name, if I confess that I contemplate it with less pleasure than his life.