Johnson's Lives of the Poets, Količina 3G. Bell and sons, 1890 |
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... praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that Swift should have checked a passion which he never ...
... praise , she grew fond of his person . Swift was then about forty - seven , at an age when vanity is strongly excited by the amorous attention of a young woman . If it be said that Swift should have checked a passion which he never ...
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... praises ? As his years increased , his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made conversation difficult ; they grew likewise more severe , till in 1736 , as he was writing a poem called " The Legion Club ...
... praises ? As his years increased , his fits of giddiness and deafness grew more frequent , and his deafness made conversation difficult ; they grew likewise more severe , till in 1736 , as he was writing a poem called " The Legion Club ...
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... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactick , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inatten- tion by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
... praise , though perhaps not the highest praise . For purposes merely didactick , when something is to be told that was not known before , it is the best mode , but against that inatten- tion by which known truths are suffered to lie ...
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... praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom ...
... praise ; but of Sandys he declared , in his notes to the " Iliad , " that English poetry owed much of its present beauty to his translations . Sandys very rarely attempted original composition . From the care of Taverner , under whom ...
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... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with human life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attain- able by a boy of fourteen in Windsor Forest . " 66 998 1 Ald . P. vol . i . p . 137. The Thebais was the ...
... praise ; he discovers such acquaintance both with human life and public affairs , as is not easily conceived to have been attain- able by a boy of fourteen in Windsor Forest . " 66 998 1 Ald . P. vol . i . p . 137. The Thebais was the ...
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Stran 22 - SMYTH'S (Professor) Lectures on Modern History; from the Irruption of the Northern Nations to the close of the American Revolution.
Stran 171 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied ; that of Pope is cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind ; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid ; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle.
Stran 18 - PASCAL'S Thoughts. Translated from the Text of M. Auguste Molinier by C. Kegan Paul. 3rd Edition, y, dd. PAULI'S (Dr. R.) Life of Alfred the Great. Translated from the German. To which is appended Alfred's ANGLO-SAXON VERSION OF OROSIUS. With a literal Translation interpaged, Notes, and an ANGLO-SAXON GRAMMAR and GLOSSARY, by B. Thorpe. 5^. PAUSANIAS
Stran 209 - This modest stone, what few vain marbles can, May truly say, Here lies an honest man: A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great: Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace.
Stran 23 - STRABO'S Geography. Translated by W. Falconer, MA, and HC Hamilton. 3 vols. 5^. each. STRICKLAND'S (Agnes) Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Revised Edition. With 6 Portraits. 6 vols. 5*. each. Life of Mary Queen of Soots. 2 vols. 5*. each. Lives of the Tudor and Stuart Princesses. With Portraits. 5*.
Stran 20 - Craven.' With 62 Engravings on Wood after Harvey, and 9 Engravings on Steel, chiefly after A. Cooper, RA 5*.
Stran 182 - The freaks, and humours, and spleen, and vanity, of women, as they embroil families in discord, and fill houses with disquiet, do more to obstruct the happiness of life in a year, than the ambition of the clergy in many centuries.
Stran 5 - CASTLE (E.) Schools and Masters of Fence, from the Middle Ages to the End of the Eighteenth Century. By Egerton Castle, MA, FSA With a Complete Bibliography. Illustrated with 140 Reproductions of Old Engravings and 6 Plates of Swords, showing 114 Examples. 6s.
Stran 172 - Of genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates; the superiority must, with some hesitation, be allowed to Dryden.
Stran 9 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I.