... is the business of impartial criticism to discover. As, in displaying the excellence of Milton, I have not made long quotations, because of selecting beauties there had been no end, I shall in the same general manner mention that which seems to deserve... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Página 312por Samuel Johnson - 1806Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 696 páginas
...Englishman ean take are unwilling to lose sight all at onee of our delight in transeribing passages, whieh, if they lessen the reputation of Milton, diminish, in some degree, the honour of our eountry!" I hope the honour of our eountry will always rest on truth and justiee. It is not by eoneealing... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 724 páginas
...is wrong that anything right can be accomplished, there still remained for them, under the guidance delight in transcribing passages, which, if they lessen...diminish, in some degree, the honour of our country!" I hope the honour of our country will always rest There is no pleasure in transcribing such passages,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 páginas
...beauties there had been no end, I shall in the same general manner mention that which seems to deserve censure ; for what Englishman can take delight in...which Bentley, perhaps better skilled in grammar than poetry, has often found, though he sometimes made them, and which he imputed to the obtrusions of a... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 páginas
...beauties there had been no end, I shall in the same general manner mention that which seems to deserve censure ; for what Englishman can take delight in...which Bentley, perhaps better skilled in grammar than poetry, has often found, though he sometimes made them, and which he imputed to the obtrusions of a... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1854 - 630 páginas
...in his life of Milton (p. 171): " What Englishman can tako delight in transcribing passages, whicb, if they lessen the reputation of Milton, diminish in some degree the honour of our country ?" But the reputation of Milton is too firmly established, either to need any adventitious support... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1856 - 346 páginas
...became the time and place ! in the Allegro and Penseroso, how exquisite and select ! Johnson asks, " What Englishman can take delight in transcribing passages,...reputation of Milton, diminish, in some degree, the honor of our country ! " I hope the honor of our country will always rest on truth and justice. It... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 páginas
...beauties there had been no end, I shall in the same general manner mention that which seems to deserve censure; for what Englishman can take delight in transcribing...poetry, has often found, though he sometimes made the n, and which he imputed to the obtrusions of a reviser, whom the Author's blindness obliged him... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 páginas
...beauties there had been no end, I shall in the same general manner mention that which seems to deserve censure ; for what Englishman can take delight in...diminish in some degree the honour of our country ? " Coleridge, in his Literary Remains, gives a criticism of the Paradise Lost, parts of which are... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 páginas
...beauties there had been no end, I shall in the same general manner mention that which seems to deserve censure ; for what Englishman can take delight in...the frequent notice of verbal inaccuracies, which Beutley, perhaps better skilled in 'grammar than in poetry, has often found, though he sometimes made... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 páginas
...beauties there had been no end, I shall in the same general manner mention that which seems to deserve censure ; for what Englishman can take delight in...diminish in some degree the honour of our country ? ' Coleridge, in his Literary Remains, gives a criticism of the Paradise Lost, parts of which are... | |
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