The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1878 - 466 strani |
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... diction and versification of his own Latin com- positions show that he had paid at least as much attention to modern copies from the antique as to the original models . While he was thus irregularly educating himself , his family was ...
... diction and versification of his own Latin com- positions show that he had paid at least as much attention to modern copies from the antique as to the original models . While he was thus irregularly educating himself , his family was ...
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... diction was too monotonous , too obviously artificial , and now and then turgid even to absurdity . But they did justice to the acuteness of his observations on morals and manners , to the constant precision and frequent brilliancy of ...
... diction was too monotonous , too obviously artificial , and now and then turgid even to absurdity . But they did justice to the acuteness of his observations on morals and manners , to the constant precision and frequent brilliancy of ...
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... diction frequently had a colloquial ease which it had formerly wanted . The improvement may be discerned by a skilful critic in the Journey to the Hebrides , and in the Lives of the Poets is so obvious that it cannot escape the notice ...
... diction frequently had a colloquial ease which it had formerly wanted . The improvement may be discerned by a skilful critic in the Journey to the Hebrides , and in the Lives of the Poets is so obvious that it cannot escape the notice ...
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... diction , and the harmony of the numbers , than by any power of invention , or vigour of sentiment . They are not all of equal value ; the elegies excell the odes ; and some of the exercises on Gunpowder Treason might have been spared ...
... diction , and the harmony of the numbers , than by any power of invention , or vigour of sentiment . They are not all of equal value ; the elegies excell the odes ; and some of the exercises on Gunpowder Treason might have been spared ...
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... diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth . They ...
... diction seem not sufficiently discriminated . I know not whether the characters are kept sufficiently apart . No mirth can , indeed , be found in his melancholy ; but I am afraid that I always meet some melancholy in his mirth . They ...
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