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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... Languages , grammar , literature , history , geography , mathematics , the knowledge of 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 ...
... Languages , grammar , literature , history , geography , mathematics , the knowledge of 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 ...
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... language ; or existing in our own language for any period except the period which Johnson's six lives cover . A student cannot read them without gaining from them , consciously or unconsciously , an insight into the his- tory of English ...
... language ; or existing in our own language for any period except the period which Johnson's six lives cover . A student cannot read them without gaining from them , consciously or unconsciously , an insight into the his- tory of English ...
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... language , the Latin , for a long time furnished the nations of Europe with an instrument of the kind , superior to any which they had yet discovered in their own tongue . But nations such as England and France , called to a great ...
... language , the Latin , for a long time furnished the nations of Europe with an instrument of the kind , superior to any which they had yet discovered in their own tongue . But nations such as England and France , called to a great ...
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... language . It soon appeared that he had a true taste . So this helped to raise the value of these men ( Tillotson and others ) , when the king approved of the style their discourses generally ran in , which was clear , plain , and short ...
... language . It soon appeared that he had a true taste . So this helped to raise the value of these men ( Tillotson and others ) , when the king approved of the style their discourses generally ran in , which was clear , plain , and short ...
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... language was not such that he could take much pleasure in the masters of Attic poetry and eloquence . But he had left school a good Latinist , and he soon acquired , in the large and miscellaneous library of which he now had the ...
... language was not such that he could take much pleasure in the masters of Attic poetry and eloquence . But he had left school a good Latinist , and he soon acquired , in the large and miscellaneous library of which he now had the ...
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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 epitaph Essay Euripides excellence fame faults favour friends genius Greek Homer honour hundred Iliad John Dryden Johnson judgement Juvenal kind King knew 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 pleased 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 198 - 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 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
Stran 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.
Stran 413 - 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 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 &
Stran 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
Stran 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.
Stran 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
Stran 198 - 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 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.