Johnson's Lives of the the English Poets: Abridged: with Notes and IllustrationsE. Newbery, 1797 - 239 páginas |
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... friendship ; and fuch was their extreme neceffities , that they have often wandered whole nights in the ftreet for want of money to procure them a lodging . In one of these nocturnal rambles , when their diftrefs was almoft incredible ...
... friendship ; and fuch was their extreme neceffities , that they have often wandered whole nights in the ftreet for want of money to procure them a lodging . In one of these nocturnal rambles , when their diftrefs was almoft incredible ...
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... friends he was enabled to carry it on with almoft equal merit . For a fhort time , indeed , it was the most popular work of the two ; and the papers with the fignature T , which are con- feffedly the moft fplendid in the whole ...
... friends he was enabled to carry it on with almoft equal merit . For a fhort time , indeed , it was the most popular work of the two ; and the papers with the fignature T , which are con- feffedly the moft fplendid in the whole ...
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... friends ex- preffed a hope that this employment would furnish him with amusement and add to his fame , he replied , " I look upon it as I did upon the Dictionary ; it is all work ; and my inducement to it is not love or defire of fame ...
... friends ex- preffed a hope that this employment would furnish him with amusement and add to his fame , he replied , " I look upon it as I did upon the Dictionary ; it is all work ; and my inducement to it is not love or defire of fame ...
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... friend , that he received for the copy 100l . and 251. more when it came to a second edition ; that he wrote it in the evenings of one week , fent it to the prefs in portions as it was written , and had never fince read it over ...
... friend , that he received for the copy 100l . and 251. more when it came to a second edition ; that he wrote it in the evenings of one week , fent it to the prefs in portions as it was written , and had never fince read it over ...
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... friend the prefident . In the variety of fubjects on which he had hitherto exercifed his pen , he had forborne , fince the admini- ftration of Sir Robert Walpole , to meddle with the difputes of contending factions ; but having feen ...
... friend the prefident . In the variety of fubjects on which he had hitherto exercifed his pen , he had forborne , fince the admini- ftration of Sir Robert Walpole , to meddle with the difputes of contending factions ; but having feen ...
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Página 146 - His legs were so slender, that he enlarged their bulk with three pair of stockings, which were drawn on and off by the maid; for he was not able to dress or undress himself, and neither went to bed nor rose without help.
Página 49 - Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious.
Página 31 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Página 239 - In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.
Página 151 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
Página 49 - They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are never balanced, nor the periods modelled: every word seems to drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous; what is little, is gay; what is great, is splendid.
Página 33 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged, beholds no condition in which he can by any effort of imagination place himself; he has, therefore, little natural curiosity or sympathy.
Página 238 - The mind of the writer seems to work with unnatural violence. Double, double, toil and trouble. He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe. His art and his struggle are too visible, and there is too little appearance of ease and nature.
Página 148 - Thirty-eight; of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they might be fairly copied. "Almost every line...
Página xii - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.