| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 páginas
...delivered to posterity as " a false Guardian ;" he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed ; he endeavoured to direct his niece...employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raying girl. Not long after, he wrote the " Rape of the Lock," the most airy, the most ingenious, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 páginas
...delivered to posterity as " a false Guardian ;" he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed ; he endeavoured to direct his niece...dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl. Not long aftei> he wrote The Rafie of the Lock, the most airy, the most ingenious, and the most delightful,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...delivered to posterity, as " a false guardian ;" he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed ; he endeavoured to direct his niece...employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a ravsng girl. Not long after, he wrote The Rape of the Lock, the most airy, the most ingenious, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 páginas
...delivered to posterity as " a false Guardian ;" he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed ; he endeavoured to direct his niece...| the most airy, the most ingenious, and the most de- \ lightful of all his compositions, occasioned by a frolick of gallantry, rather too familiar,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 páginas
...and she liked self-murder better than suspense. Nor is it discovered that the uncle, whoever he was, has not often been worse employed than in dignifying...fury of a raving girl. Not long after, he wrote The Rafie of the Lock, the most airy, the most ingenious, and the most delightful, of all his compositions,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 páginas
...delivered to posterity as " a false Guardian ;" he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed ; he endeavoured to direct his niece...delightful of all his compositions, occasioned by a frolic of gallantry, rather too familiar, in which Lord Petre cut off a lock of Mrs. Arabella Fermor's... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 páginas
...delivered to posterity as " a false Guardian;" he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed ; he endeavoured to direct his niece...delightful of all his compositions, occasioned by a frolic of gallantry, rather too familiar, in which Lord Petre cut off a lock of Mrs. Arabella Fermor's... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 308 páginas
...delivered to posterity as " a false guardian;" he seems to have done only that for which a guardian is appointed; he endeavoured to direct his niece till...delightful of all his compositions, occasioned by a frolic of gallantry, rather too familiar, in which Lord Petre cut off a lock of Mrs. Arabella Fermor's... | |
| 1822 - 880 páginas
...licentiousness of any of those orders, he invites and •merits the severest censures of criticism. " Poetry has not often been •worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl." Dr Johnson could find worse employment of poetry in the reign of George the Fourth. Of the destructive... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 páginas
...drawn much attention by the illaudable singularity, of treating suicide with respect:" and, " that poetry has not often been worse employed, than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl." She seems to have been driven to this desperate act by the violence and cruelty of her uncle and guardian,... | |
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