The Six Chief Lives: From Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with Macaulay's "Life of Johnson"Macmillan, 1878 - 466 strani |
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... letters . It is interesting to lay out in one's mind the ideal line of study to be followed by all who have to learn Latin and Greek . But it is still more interesting to lay out the ideal line of study to be followed by all who are ...
... letters . It is interesting to lay out in one's mind the ideal line of study to be followed by all who have to learn Latin and Greek . But it is still more interesting to lay out the ideal line of study to be followed by all who are ...
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... letters of the first class . And the writer of their lives is himself , too , a man of letters of the first class . Malone calls Johnson " the brightest ornament of the eighteenth century . " He is justly to be called , at any rate , a ...
... letters of the first class . And the writer of their lives is himself , too , a man of letters of the first class . Malone calls Johnson " the brightest ornament of the eighteenth century . " He is justly to be called , at any rate , a ...
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... letters . says in his life of Pope : " Judgment is forced upon us by experience . He that reads many books must compare one opinion or one style with another ; and when he compares , must necessarily distinguish , reject , and prefer ...
... letters . says in his life of Pope : " Judgment is forced upon us by experience . He that reads many books must compare one opinion or one style with another ; and when he compares , must necessarily distinguish , reject , and prefer ...
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... letters of the eighteenth century . It is much to secure their reading , under the stimulus of Johnson's interesting recital and forcible judgments , famous specimens of the authors whose lives are before them . Do not let us insist on ...
... letters of the eighteenth century . It is much to secure their reading , under the stimulus of Johnson's interesting recital and forcible judgments , famous specimens of the authors whose lives are before them . Do not let us insist on ...
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... letters , Lord Macaulay , and is likely to rouse and enliven the reader's attention rather than to dull it . I should like to think that a number of young people might thus be brought to know an important period of our literary and ...
... letters , Lord Macaulay , and is likely to rouse and enliven the reader's attention rather than to dull it . I should like to think that a number of young people might thus be brought to know an important period of our literary and ...
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Absalom and Achitophel acquaintance Addison afterwards appears Bolingbroke called Cato censure character Charles Dryden considered criticism death delight desire diction diligence dramatick Dryden Dunciad Earl elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay Euripides excellence fame faults favour friends friendship genius Homer honour hundred Iliad John Dryden Johnson judgement Juvenal kind King knew knowledge known labour Lady language Latin learning Letters lines literary literature lived Lord Lord Bolingbroke Lord Halifax manner Milton mind nature never opinion Orrery Paradise Lost passages passions perhaps play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope Pope's pounds praise preface prose publick published reader reason remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems Sempronius sentiments Shakspeare shew shewn sometimes Steele style supposed Swift Syphax Tatler tell thing thought tion told tragedy translation Tyrannick Love verses Virgil virtue Whig words write written wrote
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Stran 200 - And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, This universal frame began : When nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And
Stran 466 - 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
Stran 466 - 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.
Stran 415 - of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line," he said, "was then written twice over; I gave him a clean transcript, which he sent some time afterwards to me for the press, with almost every line
Stran 222 - 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 &
Stran 335 - 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
Stran 55 - 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.
Stran 357 - 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
Stran 200 - untuning had found some other place. As from the power of sacred lays To all the bless'd above. So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The
Stran 461 - 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.