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... gave en- couragement to a version of the " Odyssey , " Pope , weary of the toil , called Fenton and Broome to his assistance ; and , taking only half the work upon him- self , divided the other half between his partners , giving four ...
... gave en- couragement to a version of the " Odyssey , " Pope , weary of the toil , called Fenton and Broome to his assistance ; and , taking only half the work upon him- self , divided the other half between his partners , giving four ...
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... gave him no encouragement to retouch it . This has been too hastily considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy ; for , as he could not guess the conduct of the new design , or the possibilities of plea- sure comprised in a fiction ...
... gave him no encouragement to retouch it . This has been too hastily considered as an instance of Addison's jealousy ; for , as he could not guess the conduct of the new design , or the possibilities of plea- sure comprised in a fiction ...
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... gave great pain to Addison , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are always spread with boldness very disproportionate to their evi- dence . Why should Addison receive any particular disturbance from the last lines of ...
... gave great pain to Addison , both as a poet and a politician . Reports like this are always spread with boldness very disproportionate to their evi- dence . Why should Addison receive any particular disturbance from the last lines of ...
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... gave the following account : * ( " The famous lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it - When I had finish- ed the two or three first books of my translation of the ' Iliad , ' that lord desired to have ...
... gave the following account : * ( " The famous lord Halifax was rather a pretender to taste than really possessed of it - When I had finish- ed the two or three first books of my translation of the ' Iliad , ' that lord desired to have ...
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... gave the same year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shak- speare . His name was now of so much authority , that Tonson thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to de- mand a subscription of six guineas for Shakspeare's plays in six quarto ...
... gave the same year ( 1721 ) an edition of Shak- speare . His name was now of so much authority , that Tonson thought himself entitled , by annexing it , to de- mand a subscription of six guineas for Shakspeare's plays in six quarto ...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volumen11 Samuel Johnson Vista completa - 1811 |
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Página 155 - Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope. In acquired knowledge, the superiority must be allowed to Dryden, whose education was more scholastic, and who before he became an author had been allowed more time for study, with better means of information. His mind has a larger range, and he collects his images and illustrations from a more extensive circumference of science. Dryden knew more of man in his general nature, and Pope in his local manners.
Página 253 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
Página 94 - A grotto is not often the wish or pleasure of an Englishman, who has more frequent need to solicit than exclude the sun ; but Pope's excavation was requisite as an entrance to his garden, and, as some men try to be proud of their defects, he extracted an ornament from an inconvenience, and vanity produced a grotto where necessity enforced a passage.
Página 190 - Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair urn we trust, And sacred, place by Dryden's awful dust: Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies, To which thy tomb shall guide inquiring eyes. Peace to thy gentle shade, and endless rest! Blest in thy genius, in thy love too blest! One grateful woman to thy fame supplies What a whole thankless land to his denies.
Página 154 - He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence till he had left nothing to be forgiven.
Página 188 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
Página 334 - There is no character without some speck, some imperfection; and I think the greatest defect in his was an affectation in delicacy, or rather effeminacy, and a visible fastidiousness, or contempt and disdain of his inferiors in science.
Página 336 - As a writer he had this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.
Página 42 - This was all said and done with his usual seriousness on such occasions ; and, in spite of every thing we could say to the contrary, he actually obliged us to take the money.
Página 134 - .I never in my " life knew a man that had so tender a heart for " his particular friends, or more general friendship