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The subjects which I had always heard discussed were never discussed here ,
while matters on which I had never heard any one speak formed here the staple
of the talk . I recall how one evening the nineteenth century was denounced for its
...
The subjects which I had always heard discussed were never discussed here ,
while matters on which I had never heard any one speak formed here the staple
of the talk . I recall how one evening the nineteenth century was denounced for its
...
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He took his B . A . degree in the Michaelmas Term of 1858 , but never proceeded
to an M . A . through dislike of the religious tests then imposed . In 1866 he took
the degree of B . C . L . , and in 1871 that of D . C . L . , availing himself of the ...
He took his B . A . degree in the Michaelmas Term of 1858 , but never proceeded
to an M . A . through dislike of the religious tests then imposed . In 1866 he took
the degree of B . C . L . , and in 1871 that of D . C . L . , availing himself of the ...
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to be to him and his wife , Birkbeck Hill felt immediate relief , and the quiet and
beauty of the country were a never - failing source of pleasure to him . Freedom
from duties to other people ' s children allowed him to take a greater share in the
...
to be to him and his wife , Birkbeck Hill felt immediate relief , and the quiet and
beauty of the country were a never - failing source of pleasure to him . Freedom
from duties to other people ' s children allowed him to take a greater share in the
...
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He quotes with approval Hume ' s rule : ' Every book should be as complete as
possible within itself , and should never refer for anything material to other books
. ' In this year also he brought out an edition of Goldsmith ' s Traveller , for the use
...
He quotes with approval Hume ' s rule : ' Every book should be as complete as
possible within itself , and should never refer for anything material to other books
. ' In this year also he brought out an edition of Goldsmith ' s Traveller , for the use
...
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... carefully On July 27 , 1778 , Johnson wrote to John Nichols , the printer of the
Lives : — You have now all Cowley I have been drawn to a great length , but
Cowley or Waller never had any critical examination before . ' Letters of Johnson ,
ii .
... carefully On July 27 , 1778 , Johnson wrote to John Nichols , the printer of the
Lives : — You have now all Cowley I have been drawn to a great length , but
Cowley or Waller never had any critical examination before . ' Letters of Johnson ,
ii .
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Página 163 - In this poem there is no nature, for there is no truth ; there is no art, for there is nothing new. Its form is that of a pastoral ; easy, vulgar, and therefore disgusting ; whatever images it can supply are long ago exhausted ; and its inherent improbability always forces dissatisfaction on the mind.
Página 276 - ... bowers to lay me down ; To husband out life's taper at the close. And keep the flame from wasting by repose. I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my...
Página 20 - If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just...
Página 78 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Página 100 - Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful or pleasing, the first requisite is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and Justice are virtues and excellencies of all times and of all places; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Página 88 - This he steadily denies, and it was apparently not true ; but it seems plain, from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred
Página 292 - Of sentiments purely religious, it will be found that the most simple expression is the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself.
Página 136 - I have a particular reason," says he, " to remember ; for whereas I had the perusal of it " from the very beginning, for some years, as I " went from time to time to visit him, in parcels of " ten, twenty, or thirty verses at a time (which, " being written by whatever hand came next, might " possibly want correction as to the orthography
Página 440 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden Volumen1 de Lives of the English Poets, George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
| Editor | Clarendon Press, 1905 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 8 Mar 2008 |
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