Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose WritingsJ. Blackwood, 1875 - 298 páginas |
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... Poets " ( which will preserve his fame while a taste for pure criticism en- dures ) , -- is , probably , more familiar to modern readers than any of his other works ; but a number of extracts from it are also included , in order to ...
... Poets " ( which will preserve his fame while a taste for pure criticism en- dures ) , -- is , probably , more familiar to modern readers than any of his other works ; but a number of extracts from it are also included , in order to ...
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... Degree of LL.D. conferred by the University of Oxford . 1781. " Lives of the English Poets " published . 1784. Died , 13th December . WISDOM AND GENIUS OF DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . ACQUAINTANCE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF ...
... Degree of LL.D. conferred by the University of Oxford . 1781. " Lives of the English Poets " published . 1784. Died , 13th December . WISDOM AND GENIUS OF DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . ACQUAINTANCE PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THE LIFE OF ...
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... poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite passion , should exhibit with great readiness its external modes : but since ex- perience has fully proved that of those ...
... poet should without difficulty become a great actor ; that he who can feel , could express ; that he who can excite passion , should exhibit with great readiness its external modes : but since ex- perience has fully proved that of those ...
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... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player have been differently employed ; the one has been considering thought , and the other action ; one has watched the heart , and the other contem ...
... poet may be easily supposed to want ; or that the attention of the poet and the player have been differently employed ; the one has been considering thought , and the other action ; one has watched the heart , and the other contem ...
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... poet but character and sentiment , which are to make their way as they can , without the soft anxiety of suspicion or the enlivening agitation of surprise . DRINKING . In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort , coward- ice for courage ...
... poet but character and sentiment , which are to make their way as they can , without the soft anxiety of suspicion or the enlivening agitation of surprise . DRINKING . In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort , coward- ice for courage ...
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