Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2 |
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Poetry , indeed , cannot be translated ; and , therefore , it is the poets that
preserve languages ; for we would not be at the ... But as the beauties of poetry
cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written
, we ...
Poetry , indeed , cannot be translated ; and , therefore , it is the poets that
preserve languages ; for we would not be at the ... But as the beauties of poetry
cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written
, we ...
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Why , Sir , there is here a great deal of what is called poetry . ” Then turning to me
, the poet cried , “ My muse has not been long upon the town , and ( pointing to
the Ode ) it trembles under the hand of the great critic . ” Johnson , in a tone of ...
Why , Sir , there is here a great deal of what is called poetry . ” Then turning to me
, the poet cried , “ My muse has not been long upon the town , and ( pointing to
the Ode ) it trembles under the hand of the great critic . ” Johnson , in a tone of ...
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He allowed high praise to Thomson as a poet ; but when one of the company
said he was also a very good man , our moralist contested this with great warmth
, accusing him of gross sensuality and licentiousness of manners . 66 I was ( says
...
He allowed high praise to Thomson as a poet ; but when one of the company
said he was also a very good man , our moralist contested this with great warmth
, accusing him of gross sensuality and licentiousness of manners . 66 I was ( says
...
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There is more thinking in him and in Butler , than in any of our poets . ” It was a
lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More , who had expressed a wonder
that the poet who had written ' Paradise Lost ' should write such poor Sonnets ...
There is more thinking in him and in Butler , than in any of our poets . ” It was a
lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More , who had expressed a wonder
that the poet who had written ' Paradise Lost ' should write such poor Sonnets ...
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Take him as a poet , his · Traveller ' is a very fine performance ; aye , and so is his
· Deserted Village , ' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his • Traveller .
Whether , indeed , we take him as a poet , -as a comick writer , -or as an ...
Take him as a poet , his · Traveller ' is a very fine performance ; aye , and so is his
· Deserted Village , ' were it not sometimes too much the echo of his • Traveller .
Whether , indeed , we take him as a poet , -as a comick writer , -or as an ...
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| Título | Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Volumen2 Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, Samuel Johnson |
| Autor | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | J. Mawman, 1807 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 20 Abr. 2017 |
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