The Six Chief Lives from Johnson's Lives of the Poets: With Macaulay's Life of JohnsonMacmillan, 1878 - 466 strani |
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Stran viii
... line of study followed . Wide ranging , and the multiplication of matters to be investi- gated , belong to private ... lines , he should learn ; therefore it ought not to be too much in quantity . The essential thing is that it should ...
... line of study followed . Wide ranging , and the multiplication of matters to be investi- gated , belong to private ... lines , he should learn ; therefore it ought not to be too much in quantity . The essential thing is that it should ...
Stran ix
... lines are laid out , and perhaps no one could be trusted to lay them out authoritatively . But to amuse oneself with ... line of study to be followed by all who have to learn Latin and Greek . But it is still more interesting to lay out ...
... lines are laid out , and perhaps no one could be trusted to lay them out authoritatively . But to amuse oneself with ... line of study to be followed by all who have to learn Latin and Greek . But it is still more interesting to lay out ...
Stran xiii
... line of our education through 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 ...
... line of our education through 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 ...
Stran xxiv
... lines on Levett's death , beautiful and touching lines , are still more beautiful and touching because they recall a whole history of Johnson's goodness , tenderness , and charity . Human dignity , on the other hand , he maintained , we ...
... lines on Levett's death , beautiful and touching lines , are still more beautiful and touching because they recall a whole history of Johnson's goodness , tenderness , and charity . Human dignity , on the other hand , he maintained , we ...
Stran xxv
... work the reader has in his hands in the present volume ; its editor may well be fearful of injuring it by a single superfluous line , a single unacceptable word . -- THE SIX CHIEF LIVES FROM JOHNSON'S " LIVES OF THE PREFACE . XXV.
... work the reader has in his hands in the present volume ; its editor may well be fearful of injuring it by a single superfluous line , a single unacceptable word . -- THE SIX CHIEF LIVES FROM JOHNSON'S " LIVES OF THE PREFACE . XXV.
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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