| James Boswell - 1890 - 568 páginas
...active, ambitious, and adventurous. " In its [noblest] 'widest searches still longing to go forward. He wrote in such a manner as might expose him to few [neglects] hazards. " The [reasonableness] justice of my determination. " A [favourite] delicious employment... | |
| William Macneile Dixon - 1898 - 240 páginas
...poets of the Augustan age were in perfect security from these splendid dangers. Pope, as Johnson said, 'wrote in such a manner as might expose him to few hazards.' The times, indeed, were not in need of poetry; prose satisfied the pressing intellectual needs of the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 páginas
...first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate, rectify, and refine them. With such faculties and such dispositions he excelled every other writer in poetical...uniformity the certain consequence was readiness and 10 dexterity. By perpetual practice, language had in his mind a systematical arrangement; having always... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 páginas
...first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate, rectify, and refine them. With such faculties and such dispositions he excelled every other writer in poetical...and, indeed, by those few essays which he made of uny other, he did not enlarge his reputation. Of this uniformity the certain consequence was readiness... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 546 páginas
...active, ambitious, and adventurous. " In its [noblest] widest searches still longing to go forward. " He wrote in such a manner as might expose him to few [neglects] hazards. "The [reasonableness] justice of my determination. " A [favourite] delicious employment... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...active, ambitious, and adventurous. " In its [noblest] widest searches still longing to go forward. " He wrote in such a manner as might expose him to few [neglects] hazards. " The [reasonableness] justice of my determination. "A [favourite] delicious employment... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - 726 páginas
...active, ambitious, and adventurous. 'In its [noblest] widest researches still longing to go forward. 'He wrote in such a manner as might expose him to few [neglects] hazards. 'The [reasonableness] justice of my determination. 'A [favourite] delicious employment... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...decorate, rectify, and refine them. With such faculties and such dispositions he excelled every 300 other writer in poetical prudence ; he wrote in such...him to few hazards. He used almost always the same fabrick of verse ; and, indeed, by those few essays which he made of any other, he did not enlarge... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 664 páginas
...words, and gradually to amplify, decorate, rectify, and refine them. With such faculties, and such dispositions, he excelled every other writer in poetical...him to few hazards. He used almost always the same f abrick of verse ; and, indeed, by those few essays which he made of any other, he did not enlarge... | |
| Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 páginas
...Certainly, the consequences of Pope's drive take a toll on his moral being: With such faculties and such dispositions he excelled every other writer in poetical...him to few hazards. He used almost always the same fabrick of verse . . . Pope was not content to satisfy; he desired to excel, and therefore always endeavoured... | |
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