The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not ...
... reputation than as they shew him to have been above the affectation of unseasonable elegance , and to have known that the business of a statesman can be little forwarded by flowers of rhetorick . One passage , however , seems not ...
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... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering ...
... reputation . His wish for retirement we can easily believe to be undissembled ; a man harassed in one kingdom , and persecuted in another , who , after a course of business that employed all his days and half his nights , in cyphering ...
Pagina 23
... reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remem- brance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton ...
... reputation was high , they had un- doubtedly more imitators than time has left behind . Their immediate successors , of whom any remem- brance can be said to remain , were Suckling , Waller , Denham , Cowley , Cleiveland , and Milton ...
Pagina 53
... reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erro- neous , yet many parts deserve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of ...
... reputation , that I am not willing to dismiss them with unabated censure ; and surely , though the mode of their composition be erro- neous , yet many parts deserve at least that admiration which is due to great comprehension of ...
Pagina 73
... , and made governor of Farnham Castle for the king ; but he soon resigned that charge , and retreated to Oxford , where , in 1643 , he published " Cooper's Hill . " This poem had such reputation as to excite the common DENHAM . 73.
... , and made governor of Farnham Castle for the king ; but he soon resigned that charge , and retreated to Oxford , where , in 1643 , he published " Cooper's Hill . " This poem had such reputation as to excite the common DENHAM . 73.
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