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The editor , ' as he himself tells us , ' discovered in me a certain vein of humour ,
and for the most part sent me books to review which deserved little more than
ridicule . What havoc I made among the novelists and minor poets ! I amused my
...
The editor , ' as he himself tells us , ' discovered in me a certain vein of humour ,
and for the most part sent me books to review which deserved little more than
ridicule . What havoc I made among the novelists and minor poets ! I amused my
...
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In the six volumes of the Life there is , ' he tells us , ' scarcely a quotation or a
reference in the notes which I did not verify in the proof by a comparison with the
original authority . The labour was great , but it was not more than a man should
be ...
In the six volumes of the Life there is , ' he tells us , ' scarcely a quotation or a
reference in the notes which I did not verify in the proof by a comparison with the
original authority . The labour was great , but it was not more than a man should
be ...
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I believe I can tell the particular looked upon Chaucer as ' a dry oldlittle chance
that filled my head first fashioned wit , not worth reviving . with such chimes of
verse as have Having read him over at the Earl never since left ringing there ; for I
of ...
I believe I can tell the particular looked upon Chaucer as ' a dry oldlittle chance
that filled my head first fashioned wit , not worth reviving . with such chimes of
verse as have Having read him over at the Earl never since left ringing there ; for I
of ...
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It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not
refrain from amplifying a com - o modious incident , though the book to which he
prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things
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It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when Sprat could not
refrain from amplifying a com - o modious incident , though the book to which he
prefixed his narrative contained its confutation . A memory admitting some things
...
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A letter - writer tells how he went to Trinity College , where , after dinner , he saw
a comedy in English , and gave all sighnes of great acceptance which he could ,
and more than the University dared expect . ' Cooper ' s Annals of Cambridge , iïi
...
A letter - writer tells how he went to Trinity College , where , after dinner , he saw
a comedy in English , and gave all sighnes of great acceptance which he could ,
and more than the University dared expect . ' Cooper ' s Annals of Cambridge , iïi
...
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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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