Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 4Times Book Club, 1912 |
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Stran 44
... Poetry , indeed , cannot be trans- lated ; and , therefore , it is the poets that preserve the languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language , if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation ...
... Poetry , indeed , cannot be trans- lated ; and , therefore , it is the poets that preserve the languages ; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language , if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation ...
Stran 45
... Poets , was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud a large portion of him , and then asked ... poetry produced in this age . Dodsley appealed to his own collection , and main- tained that though you could not find ...
... Poets , was one day sitting with me . I took down Thomson , and read aloud a large portion of him , and then asked ... poetry produced in this age . Dodsley appealed to his own collection , and main- tained that though you could not find ...
Stran 46
... poetry , nothing that towered above the common mark . You may find wit and humour in verse , and yet no poetry . " Hubidras " has a profusion of these ; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem . " The Spleen , " in Dodsley's collection , on ...
... poetry , nothing that towered above the common mark . You may find wit and humour in verse , and yet no poetry . " Hubidras " has a profusion of these ; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem . " The Spleen , " in Dodsley's collection , on ...
Stran 54
... poem , but did not like it much . ' differed from him ; for though it is not equal through- out , and is seldom elegantly correct , it abounds in solemn thought , and poetical imagery beyond the common reach . The world has differed ...
... poem , but did not like it much . ' differed from him ; for though it is not equal through- out , and is seldom elegantly correct , it abounds in solemn thought , and poetical imagery beyond the common reach . The world has differed ...
Stran 56
... poetry , ' as I had seen him inquire upon the spot into the authenticity of ' Ossian's poetry . ' George Catcot , the pewterer , who was as zealous for Rowley , as Hugh Blair was for Ossian ( I trust my reverend friend will excuse the ...
... poetry , ' as I had seen him inquire upon the spot into the authenticity of ' Ossian's poetry . ' George Catcot , the pewterer , who was as zealous for Rowley , as Hugh Blair was for Ossian ( I trust my reverend friend will excuse the ...
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